linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] devpts: If initialization failed, don't crash when opening /dev/ptmx

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Message-ID: <554BA665.5010000@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Thu, 07 May 2015 13:52:37 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@...il.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devpts: If initialization failed, don't crash when opening
 /dev/ptmx

On 05/06/2015 08:35 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> If devpts failed to initialize, it would store an ERR_PTR in the global
> devpts_mnt.  A subsequent open of /dev/ptmx would call devpts_new_index,
> which would dereference devpts_mnt and crash.
> 
> Avoid storing invalid values in devpts_mnt; leave it NULL instead.
> Make both devpts_new_index and devpts_pty_new fail gracefully with
> ENODEV in that case, which then becomes the return value to the
> userspace open call on /dev/ptmx.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
> ---
> 
> This fixes a crash found by Fengguang Wu's 0-day service ("BUG: unable to
> handle kernel paging request at ffffffee").  It doesn't yet fix the underlying
> initialization failure in init_devpts_fs, but it stops that failure from
> becoming a kernel crash.  I'm working on the initialization failure now.
> 
>  fs/devpts/inode.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
> index cfe8466..03e9076 100644
> --- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ static inline struct super_block *pts_sb_from_inode(struct inode *inode)
>  	if (inode->i_sb->s_magic == DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC)
>  		return inode->i_sb;
>  #endif
> +	if (!devpts_mnt)
> +		return NULL;
>  	return devpts_mnt->mnt_sb;
>  }
>  
> @@ -525,10 +527,14 @@ static struct file_system_type devpts_fs_type = {
>  int devpts_new_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode)
>  {
>  	struct super_block *sb = pts_sb_from_inode(ptmx_inode);
> -	struct pts_fs_info *fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
> +	struct pts_fs_info *fsi;
>  	int index;
>  	int ida_ret;
>  
> +	if (!sb)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
>  retry:
>  	if (!ida_pre_get(&fsi->allocated_ptys, GFP_KERNEL))
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -584,11 +590,18 @@ struct inode *devpts_pty_new(struct inode *ptmx_inode, dev_t device, int index,
>  	struct dentry *dentry;
>  	struct super_block *sb = pts_sb_from_inode(ptmx_inode);
>  	struct inode *inode;
> -	struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
> -	struct pts_fs_info *fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
> -	struct pts_mount_opts *opts = &fsi->mount_opts;
> +	struct dentry *root;
> +	struct pts_fs_info *fsi;
> +	struct pts_mount_opts *opts;
>  	char s[12];
>  
> +	if (!sb)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +
> +	root = sb->s_root;
> +	fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
> +	opts = &fsi->mount_opts;
> +
>  	inode = new_inode(sb);
>  	if (!inode)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> @@ -676,12 +689,15 @@ static int __init init_devpts_fs(void)
>  	struct ctl_table_header *table;
>  
>  	if (!err) {
> +		static struct vfsmount *mnt;
                ^^^^^^
Not static storage. Other than that,

Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>

>  		table = register_sysctl_table(pty_root_table);
> -		devpts_mnt = kern_mount(&devpts_fs_type);
> -		if (IS_ERR(devpts_mnt)) {
> -			err = PTR_ERR(devpts_mnt);
> +		mnt = kern_mount(&devpts_fs_type);
> +		if (IS_ERR(mnt)) {
> +			err = PTR_ERR(mnt);
>  			unregister_filesystem(&devpts_fs_type);
>  			unregister_sysctl_table(table);
> +		} else {
> +			devpts_mnt = mnt;
>  		}
>  	}
>  	return err;
> 

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