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

[Josh Triplett]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

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;
 		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;
-- 
2.1.4

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