linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] devpts: use dynamic

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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:13:02 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@....de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] devpts: use dynamic_dname() to generate proc name

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> But that still fails the TIOCGPTPEER ioctl with an NULL pointer
> dereference in devpts_mnt,  I probably messed up when I fixed the
> dentry refcount leak.

No, that was another bug in the original patch.

ptm_open_peer() passed in 'filp' to devpts_mnt(), but it should
obviously pass in the 'master' one.

filp is NULL at that point.

The attached patch should work. It's Eric's original patch with
various cleanups and fixes.

                    Linus

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