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2025-12-06Merge tag 'tty-6.19-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-58/+45
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of tty/serial driver changes for 6.19-rc1. Nothing major at all, just small constant churn to make the tty layer "cleaner" as well as serial driver updates and even a new test added! Included in here are: - More tty/serial cleanups from Jiri - tty tiocsti test added to hopefully ensure we don't regress in this area again - sc16is7xx driver updates - imx serial driver updates - 8250 driver updates - new hardware device ids added - other minor serial/tty driver cleanups and tweaks All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (60 commits) serial: sh-sci: Fix deadlock during RSCI FIFO overrun error dt-bindings: serial: rsci: Drop "uart-has-rtscts: false" LoongArch: dts: Add uart new compatible string serial: 8250: Add Loongson uart driver support dt-bindings: serial: 8250: Add Loongson uart compatible serial: 8250: add driver for KEBA UART serial: Keep rs485 settings for devices without firmware node serial: qcom-geni: Enable Serial on SA8255p Qualcomm platforms serial: qcom-geni: Enable PM runtime for serial driver serial: sprd: Return -EPROBE_DEFER when uart clock is not ready tty: serial: samsung: Declare earlycon for Exynos850 serial: icom: Convert PCIBIOS_* return codes to errnos serial: 8250-of: Fix style issues in 8250_of.c serial: add support of CPCI cards serial: mux: Fix kernel doc for mux_poll() tty: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq serial: 8250_platform: simplify IRQF_SHARED handling serial: 8250: make share_irqs local to 8250_platform serial: 8250: move skip_txen_test to core serial: drop SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS ...
2025-11-28tty: convert ptm_open_peer() to FD_ADD()Christian Brauner1-33/+18
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says: The fix sent in [1] was squashed into this commit. Fixes: https://lore.kernel.org/37ac7af5-584f-4768-a462-4d1071c43eaf@sirena.org.uk [1] Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> [1] Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [1] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251123-work-fd-prepare-v4-42-b6efa1706cfd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-21tty: pty: use guard()sJiri Slaby (SUSE)1-58/+45
Use guards in the pty code. This improves readability, makes error handling easier, and marks locked portions of code explicit. All that while being sure the lock is unlocked. pty_set_pktmode() is handled specially -- the conditions are inverted and return called if conditions unmet. This avoid double nested 'if's. The variable is renamed to want_pktmode so it is not confused with the current state of pktmode. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119100140.830761-2-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-02-07fsnotify: use accessor to set FMODE_NONOTIFY_*Amir Goldstein1-1/+1
The FMODE_NONOTIFY_* bits are a 2-bits mode. Open coding manipulation of those bits is risky. Use an accessor file_set_fsnotify_mode() to set the mode. Rename file_set_fsnotify_mode() => file_set_fsnotify_mode_from_watchers() to make way for the simple accessor name. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250203223205.861346-2-amir73il@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-08-11tty: make tty_operations::write()'s count size_tJiri Slaby (SUSE)1-1/+1
Unify with the rest of the code. Use size_t for counts and ssize_t for retval. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-30-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-11tty: propagate u8 data to tty_operations::write()Jiri Slaby (SUSE)1-1/+1
Data are now typed as u8. Propagate this change to tty_operations::write(). Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Taprogge <jens.taprogge@taprogge.org> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: David Lin <dtwlin@gmail.com> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org> Cc: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com> Cc: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@foss.st.com> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com> Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-28-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-04-03tty: make tty_class a static const structureGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+1
Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only memory, move the tty_class structure to be declared at build time placing it into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically allocated at boot time. Cc: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2023040250-landowner-unfitted-11f4@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-08-30tty: Make ->set_termios() old ktermios constIlpo Järvinen1-1/+1
There should be no reason to adjust old ktermios which is going to get discarded anyway. Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816115739.10928-9-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-08tty: use new tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer() in pty_write()Jiri Slaby1-12/+2
There is a race in pty_write(). pty_write() can be called in parallel with e.g. ioctl(TIOCSTI) or ioctl(TCXONC) which also inserts chars to the buffer. Provided, tty_flip_buffer_push() in pty_write() is called outside the lock, it can commit inconsistent tail. This can lead to out of bounds writes and other issues. See the Link below. To fix this, we have to introduce a new helper called tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer(). It does both tty_insert_flip_string() and tty_flip_buffer_commit() under the port lock. It also calls queue_work(), but outside the lock. See 71a174b39f10 (pty: do tty_flip_buffer_push without port->lock in pty_write) for the reasons. Keep the helper internal-only (in drivers' tty.h). It is not intended to be used widely. Link: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q2/155 Fixes: 71a174b39f10 (pty: do tty_flip_buffer_push without port->lock in pty_write) Cc: 一只狗 <chennbnbnb@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220707082558.9250-2-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-20tty: pty: correct function name pty_resize()Yang Yingliang1-1/+1
Fix the following make W=1 kernel build warning: drivers/tty/pty.c:307: warning: expecting prototype for pty_do_resize(). Prototype was for pty_resize() instead Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210518045353.611017-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-20tty: pty: remove redundant initialization of variable fdColin Ian King1-1/+1
The variable fd is being initialized with a value that is never read, it is being updated later on. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210513221833.137672-1-colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-13tty: remove tty_operations::chars_in_buffer for non-bufferingJiri Slaby1-17/+0
The only user of tty_ops::chars_in_buffer is tty_chars_in_buffer. And it considers tty_ops::chars_in_buffer optional. In case it's NULL, zero is returned. So remove all those chars_in_buffer from tty_ops which return zero. (Zero means such driver doesn't buffer.) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> # xtensa Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505091928.22010-26-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-13tty: make tty_operations::write_room return uintJiri Slaby1-1/+1
Line disciplines expect a positive value or zero returned from tty->ops->write_room (invoked by tty_write_room). So make this assumption explicit by using unsigned int as a return value. Both of tty->ops->write_room and tty_write_room. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com> Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> # xtensa Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com> Cc: Jens Taprogge <jens.taprogge@taprogge.org> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Lin <dtwlin@gmail.com> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com> Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505091928.22010-23-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-13tty: cumulate and document tty_struct::ctrl* membersJiri Slaby1-31/+31
Group the ctrl members under a single struct called ctrl. The new struct contains 'pgrp', 'session', 'pktstatus', and 'packet'. 'pktstatus' and 'packet' used to be bits in a bitfield. The struct also contains the lock protecting them to share the same cache line. Note that commit c545b66c6922b (tty: Serialize tcflow() with other tty flow control changes) added a padding to the original bitfield. It was for the bitfield to occupy a whole 64b word to avoid interferring stores on Alpha (cannot we evaporate this arch with weird implications to C code yet?). But it doesn't work as expected as the padding (tty_struct::ctrl_unused) is aligned to a 8B boundary too and occupies some bytes from the next word. So make it reliable by: 1) setting __aligned of the struct -- that aligns the start, and 2) making 'unsigned long unused[0]' as the last member of the struct -- pads the end. Add a kerneldoc comment for this grouped members. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505091928.22010-14-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-13tty: cumulate and document tty_struct::flow* membersJiri Slaby1-2/+2
Group the flow flags under a single struct called flow. The new struct contains 'stopped' and 'tco_stopped' bools which used to be bits in a bitfield. The struct also contains the lock protecting them to potentially share the same cache line. Note that commit c545b66c6922b (tty: Serialize tcflow() with other tty flow control changes) added a padding to the original bitfield. It was for the bitfield to occupy a whole 64b word to avoid interferring stores on Alpha (cannot we evaporate this arch with weird implications to C code yet?). But it doesn't work as expected as the padding (tty_struct::unused) is aligned to a 8B boundary too and occupies some bytes from the next word. So make it reliable by: 1) setting __aligned of the struct -- that aligns the start, and 2) making 'unsigned long unused[0]' as the last member of the struct -- pads the end. This is also the perfect time to start the documentation of tty_struct where all this lives. So we start by documenting what these bools actually serve for. And why we do all the alignment dances. Only the few up-to-date information from the Theodore's comment made it into this new Kerneldoc comment. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505091928.22010-13-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-04-15tty: create internal tty.h fileGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
There are a number of functions and #defines in include/linux/tty.h that do not belong there as they are private to the tty core code. Create an initial drivers/tty/tty.h file and copy the odd "tty logging" macros into it to seed the file with some initial things that we know nothing outside of the tty core should be calling. Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408125134.3016837-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-04-02tty: pty: Add a blank line after declarationsXiaofei Tan1-0/+4
Add a blank line after declarations, reported by checkpatch.pl. Signed-off-by: Xiaofei Tan <tanxiaofei@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1617351990-5189-1-git-send-email-tanxiaofei@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-10Revert "drivers:tty:pty: Fix a race causing data loss on close"Greg Kroah-Hartman1-13/+2
This reverts commit 33d4ae98859873ddd49e22e4ca724387548b3d89. Pierre-Louis writes: Our SOF/audio CI shows an across-the-board regression when we try v5.12-rc1, specifically on pause/resume tests with an interactive terminal running 'aplay -i' commands managed by expect to simulate the user pressing the space bar to pause/unpause. It turns out the processes are not longer killed and the audio devices remain busy (see publicly available test results listed below). git bisect points to commit 33d4ae9885987 ("drivers:tty:pty: Fix a race causing data loss on close"). Reverting the patch fixes the issue on all test devices. Further analysis with Corey Minyard points to a problem where a slave tty will not get a SIGHUP when the master is closed. So revert this for now: Reported-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/00154592-c5ee-aaba-956e-b265473b53bc@linux.intel.com Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Fixes: 33d4ae988598 ("drivers:tty:pty: Fix a race causing data loss on close") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-01-07drivers:tty:pty: Fix a race causing data loss on closeCorey Minyard1-2/+13
Remove the tty_vhangup() from the pty code and just release the redirect. The tty_vhangup() results in data loss and data out of order issues. If you write to a pty master an immediately close the pty master, the receiver might get a chunk of data dropped, but then receive some later data. That's obviously something rather unexpected for a user. It certainly confused my test program. It turns out that tty_vhangup() on the slave pty gets called from pty_close(), and that causes the data on the slave side to be flushed, but due to races more data can be copied into the slave side's buffer after that. Consider the following sequence: thread1 thread2 thread3 ------- ------- ------- | |-write data into buffer, | | n_tty buffer is filled | | along with other buffers | |-pty_close(master) | |--tty_vhangup(slave) | |---tty_ldisc_hangup() | |----n_tty_flush_buffer() | |-----reset_buffer_flags() |-n_tty_read() | |--up_read(&tty->termios_rwsem); | |------down_read(&tty->termios_rwsem) | |------clear n_tty buffer contents | |------up_read(&tty->termios_rwsem) |--tty_buffer_flush_work() | |--schedules work calling | | flush_to_ldisc() | | |-flush_to_ldisc() | |--receive_buf() | |---tty_port_default_receive_buf() | |----tty_ldisc_receive_buf() | |-----n_tty_receive_buf2() | |------n_tty_receive_buf_common() | |-------down_read(&tty->termios_rwsem) | |-------__receive_buf() | | copies data into n_tty buffer | |-------up_read(&tty->termios_rwsem) |--down_read(&tty->termios_rwsem) |--copy buffer data to user >From this sequence, you can see that thread2 writes to the buffer then only clears the part of the buffer in n_tty. The n_tty receive buffer code then copies more data into the n_tty buffer. But part of the vhangup, releasing the redirect, is still required to avoid issues with consoles running on pty slaves. So do that. As far as I can tell, that is all that should be required. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201124004902.1398477-3-minyard@acm.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-01-07tty: pty, remove BUG_ON from pty_closeJiri Slaby1-1/+0
tty->ops->close is always called with a valid tty, so the BUG_ON cannot trigger. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105120239.28031-5-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-11-06tty: pty: Provide descriptions for the 'file' parametersLee Jones1-0/+2
Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s): drivers/tty/pty.c:710: warning: Function parameter or member 'file' not described in 'ptm_unix98_lookup' drivers/tty/pty.c:726: warning: Function parameter or member 'file' not described in 'pts_unix98_lookup' Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@alumni.princeton.edu> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201104193549.4026187-17-lee.jones@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-09-04pty: do tty_flip_buffer_push without port->lock in pty_writeArtem Savkov1-1/+1
b6da31b2c07c "tty: Fix data race in tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag" puts tty_flip_buffer_push under port->lock introducing the following possible circular locking dependency: [30129.876566] ====================================================== [30129.876566] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected [30129.876567] 5.9.0-rc2+ #3 Tainted: G S W [30129.876568] ------------------------------------------------------ [30129.876568] sysrq.sh/1222 is trying to acquire lock: [30129.876569] ffffffff92c39480 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}, at: console_unlock+0x3fe/0xa90 [30129.876572] but task is already holding lock: [30129.876572] ffff888107cb9018 (&pool->lock/1){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: show_workqueue_state.cold.55+0x15b/0x6ca [30129.876576] which lock already depends on the new lock. [30129.876577] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: [30129.876578] -> #3 (&pool->lock/1){-.-.}-{2:2}: [30129.876581] _raw_spin_lock+0x30/0x70 [30129.876581] __queue_work+0x1a3/0x10f0 [30129.876582] queue_work_on+0x78/0x80 [30129.876582] pty_write+0x165/0x1e0 [30129.876583] n_tty_write+0x47f/0xf00 [30129.876583] tty_write+0x3d6/0x8d0 [30129.876584] vfs_write+0x1a8/0x650 [30129.876588] -> #2 (&port->lock#2){-.-.}-{2:2}: [30129.876590] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x80 [30129.876591] tty_port_tty_get+0x1d/0xb0 [30129.876592] tty_port_default_wakeup+0xb/0x30 [30129.876592] serial8250_tx_chars+0x3d6/0x970 [30129.876593] serial8250_handle_irq.part.12+0x216/0x380 [30129.876593] serial8250_default_handle_irq+0x82/0xe0 [30129.876594] serial8250_interrupt+0xdd/0x1b0 [30129.876595] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0xfc/0x850 [30129.876602] -> #1 (&port->lock){-.-.}-{2:2}: [30129.876605] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x80 [30129.876605] serial8250_console_write+0x12d/0x900 [30129.876606] console_unlock+0x679/0xa90 [30129.876606] register_console+0x371/0x6e0 [30129.876607] univ8250_console_init+0x24/0x27 [30129.876607] console_init+0x2f9/0x45e [30129.876609] -> #0 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}: [30129.876611] __lock_acquire+0x2f70/0x4e90 [30129.876612] lock_acquire+0x1ac/0xad0 [30129.876612] console_unlock+0x460/0xa90 [30129.876613] vprintk_emit+0x130/0x420 [30129.876613] printk+0x9f/0xc5 [30129.876614] show_pwq+0x154/0x618 [30129.876615] show_workqueue_state.cold.55+0x193/0x6ca [30129.876615] __handle_sysrq+0x244/0x460 [30129.876616] write_sysrq_trigger+0x48/0x4a [30129.876616] proc_reg_write+0x1a6/0x240 [30129.876617] vfs_write+0x1a8/0x650 [30129.876619] other info that might help us debug this: [30129.876620] Chain exists of: [30129.876621] console_owner --> &port->lock#2 --> &pool->lock/1 [30129.876625] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [30129.876626] CPU0 CPU1 [30129.876626] ---- ---- [30129.876627] lock(&pool->lock/1); [30129.876628] lock(&port->lock#2); [30129.876630] lock(&pool->lock/1); [30129.876631] lock(console_owner); [30129.876633] *** DEADLOCK *** [30129.876634] 5 locks held by sysrq.sh/1222: [30129.876634] #0: ffff8881d3ce0470 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: vfs_write+0x359/0x650 [30129.876637] #1: ffffffff92c612c0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: __handle_sysrq+0x4d/0x460 [30129.876640] #2: ffffffff92c612c0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: show_workqueue_state+0x5/0xf0 [30129.876642] #3: ffff888107cb9018 (&pool->lock/1){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: show_workqueue_state.cold.55+0x15b/0x6ca [30129.876645] #4: ffffffff92c39980 (console_lock){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: vprintk_emit+0x123/0x420 [30129.876648] stack backtrace: [30129.876649] CPU: 3 PID: 1222 Comm: sysrq.sh Tainted: G S W 5.9.0-rc2+ #3 [30129.876649] Hardware name: Intel Corporation 2012 Client Platform/Emerald Lake 2, BIOS ACRVMBY1.86C.0078.P00.1201161002 01/16/2012 [30129.876650] Call Trace: [30129.876650] dump_stack+0x9d/0xe0 [30129.876651] check_noncircular+0x34f/0x410 [30129.876653] __lock_acquire+0x2f70/0x4e90 [30129.876656] lock_acquire+0x1ac/0xad0 [30129.876658] console_unlock+0x460/0xa90 [30129.876660] vprintk_emit+0x130/0x420 [30129.876660] printk+0x9f/0xc5 [30129.876661] show_pwq+0x154/0x618 [30129.876662] show_workqueue_state.cold.55+0x193/0x6ca [30129.876664] __handle_sysrq+0x244/0x460 [30129.876665] write_sysrq_trigger+0x48/0x4a [30129.876665] proc_reg_write+0x1a6/0x240 [30129.876666] vfs_write+0x1a8/0x650 It looks like the commit was aimed to protect tty_insert_flip_string and there is no need for tty_flip_buffer_push to be under this lock. Fixes: b6da31b2c07c ("tty: Fix data race in tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag") Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902120045.3693075-1-asavkov@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-08-18tty: fix kernel-docJiri Slaby1-1/+1
With W=1, the kernel-doc checker complains quite a lot in the tty layer. Over the time, many documented parameters were renamed, removed or switched from tty to tty_port and similar. Some were mistyped in the doc too. So fix all these in the tty core. (But do not add the missing ones which the checker complains about too. Not now.) The rest in the tty layer will follow in the next patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818085655.12071-4-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-13pty: fix compat ioctlsAl Viro1-2/+12
pointer-taking ones need compat_ptr(); int-taking one doesn't. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-21pty: fix O_CLOEXEC for TIOCGPTPEERMatthijs van Duin1-1/+1
It was being ignored because the flags were not passed to fd allocation. Fixes: 54ebbfb16034 ("tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl") Signed-off-by: Matthijs van Duin <matthijsvanduin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-14tty: Fix data race in tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flagDaeRyong Jeong1-0/+3
Unlike normal serials, in pty layer, there is no guarantee that multiple threads don't insert input characters at the same time. If it is happened, tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag can be executed concurrently. This can lead slab out-of-bounds write in tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag. Call sequences are as follows. CPU0 CPU1 n_tty_ioctl_helper n_tty_ioctl_helper __start_tty tty_send_xchar tty_wakeup pty_write n_hdlc_tty_wakeup tty_insert_flip_string n_hdlc_send_frames tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag pty_write tty_insert_flip_string tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag To fix the race, acquire port->lock in pty_write() before it inserts input characters to tty buffer. It prevents multiple threads from inserting input characters concurrently. The crash log is as follows: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag+0xb5/ 0x130 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:316 at addr ffff880114fcc121 Write of size 1792 by task syz-executor0/30017 CPU: 1 PID: 30017 Comm: syz-executor0 Not tainted 4.8.0 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.2-0-g33fbe13 by qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 0000000000000000 ffff88011638f888 ffffffff81694cc3 ffff88007d802140 ffff880114fcb300 ffff880114fcc300 ffff880114fcb300 ffff88011638f8b0 ffffffff8130075c ffff88011638f940 ffff88007d802140 ffff880194fcc121 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 [inline] dump_stack+0xb3/0x110 lib/dump_stack.c:51 kasan_object_err+0x1c/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:156 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:194 [inline] kasan_report_error+0x1f7/0x4e0 mm/kasan/report.c:283 kasan_report+0x36/0x40 mm/kasan/report.c:303 check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/kasan.c:292 [inline] check_memory_region+0x13e/0x1a0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:299 memcpy+0x37/0x50 mm/kasan/kasan.c:335 tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag+0xb5/0x130 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:316 tty_insert_flip_string include/linux/tty_flip.h:35 [inline] pty_write+0x7f/0xc0 drivers/tty/pty.c:115 n_hdlc_send_frames+0x1d4/0x3b0 drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c:419 n_hdlc_tty_wakeup+0x73/0xa0 drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c:496 tty_wakeup+0x92/0xb0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:601 __start_tty.part.26+0x66/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1018 __start_tty+0x34/0x40 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1013 n_tty_ioctl_helper+0x146/0x1e0 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:1138 n_hdlc_tty_ioctl+0xb3/0x2b0 drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c:794 tty_ioctl+0xa85/0x16d0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2992 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:43 [inline] do_vfs_ioctl+0x13e/0xba0 fs/ioctl.c:679 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:694 [inline] SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:685 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd Signed-off-by: DaeRyong Jeong <threeearcat@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-02-11vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacementLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL* variables as described by Al, done by this script: for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'` for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done done with de-mangling cleanups yet to come. NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same values as the POLL* constants do. But they keyword here is "almost". For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al. The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we should be all done. Scripted-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-09-05Merge tag 'tty-4.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big tty/serial driver update for 4.14-rc1. Well, not all that big, just a number of small serial driver fixes, and a new serial driver. Also in here are some much needed goldfish tty driver (emulator) fixes to try to get that codebase under control. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (94 commits) tty: goldfish: Implement support for kernel 'earlycon' parameter tty: goldfish: Use streaming DMA for r/w operations on Ranchu platforms tty: goldfish: Refactor constants to better reflect their nature serial: 8250_port: Remove useless NULL checks earlycon: initialise baud field of earlycon device structure tty: hvcs: make ktermios const pty: show associative slave of ptmx in fdinfo tty: n_gsm: Add compat_ioctl tty: hvcs: constify vio_device_id tty: hvc_vio: constify vio_device_id tty: mips_ejtag_fdc: constify mips_cdmm_device_id Introduce 8250_men_mcb mcb: introduce mcb_get_resource() serial: imx: Avoid post-PIO cleanup if TX DMA is started tty: serial: imx: disable irq after suspend serial: 8250_uniphier: add suspend/resume support serial: 8250_uniphier: use CHAR register for canary to detect power-off serial: 8250_uniphier: fix serial port index in private data serial: 8250: of: Add new port type for MediaTek BTIF controller on MT7622/23 SoC dt-bindings: serial: 8250: Add MediaTek BTIF controller bindings ...
2017-08-28pty: show associative slave of ptmx in fdinfoMasatake YAMATO1-1/+7
This patch adds "tty-index" field to /proc/PID/fdinfo/N if N specifies /dev/ptmx. The field shows the index of associative slave pts. Though a minor number is given for each pts instance, ptmx is not. It means there is no way in user-space to know the association between file descriptors for pts/n and ptmx. (n = 0, 1, ...) This is different from pipe. About pipe such association can be solved by inode of pipefs. Providing the way to know the association between pts/n and ptmx helps users understand the status of running system. lsof can utilize this field. Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-24pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEEREric W. Biederman1-37/+27
The implementation of TIOCGPTPEER has two issues. When /dev/ptmx (as opposed to /dev/pts/ptmx) is opened the wrong vfsmount is passed to dentry_open. Which results in the kernel displaying the wrong pathname for the peer. The second is simply by caching the vfsmount and dentry of the peer it leaves them open, in a way they were not previously Which because of the inreased reference counts can cause unnecessary behaviour differences resulting in regressions. To fix these move the ioctl into tty_io.c at a generic level allowing the ioctl to have access to the struct file on which the ioctl is being called. This allows the path of the slave to be derived when opening the slave through TIOCGPTPEER instead of requiring the path to the slave be cached. Thus removing the need for caching the path. A new function devpts_ptmx_path is factored out of devpts_acquire and used to implement a function devpts_mntget. The new function devpts_mntget takes a filp to perform the lookup on and fsi so that it can confirm that the superblock that is found by devpts_ptmx_path is the proper superblock. v2: Lots of fixes to make the code actually work v3: Suggestions by Linus - Removed the unnecessary initialization of filp in ptm_open_peer - Simplified devpts_ptmx_path as gotos are no longer required [ This is the fix for the issue that was reverted in commit 143c97cc6529, but this time without breaking 'pbuilder' due to increased reference counts - Linus ] Fixes: 54ebbfb16034 ("tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl") Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-23Revert "pty: fix the cached path of the pty slave file descriptor in the master"Linus Torvalds1-5/+2
This reverts commit c8c03f1858331e85d397bacccd34ef409aae993c. It turns out that while fixing the ptmx file descriptor to have the correct 'struct path' to the associated slave pty is a really good thing, it breaks some user space tools for a very annoying reason. The problem is that /dev/ptmx and its associated slave pty (/dev/pts/X) are on different mounts. That was what caused us to have the wrong path in the first place (we would mix up the vfsmount of the 'ptmx' node, with the dentry of the pty slave node), but it also means that now while we use the right vfsmount, having the pty master open also keeps the pts mount busy. And it turn sout that that makes 'pbuilder' very unhappy, as noted by Stefan Lippers-Hollmann: "This patch introduces a regression for me when using pbuilder 0.228.7[2] (a helper to build Debian packages in a chroot and to create and update its chroots) when trying to umount /dev/ptmx (inside the chroot) on Debian/ unstable (full log and pbuilder configuration file[3] attached). [...] Setting up build-essential (12.3) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-15) ... I: unmounting dev/ptmx filesystem W: Could not unmount dev/ptmx: umount: /var/cache/pbuilder/build/1340/dev/ptmx: target is busy (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).)" apparently pbuilder tries to unmount the /dev/pts filesystem while still holding at least one master node open, which is arguably not very nice, but we don't break user space even when fixing other bugs. So this commit has to be reverted. I'll try to figure out a way to avoid caching the path to the slave pty in the master pty. The only thing that actually wants that slave pty path is the "TIOCGPTPEER" ioctl, and I think we could just recreate the path at that time. Reported-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> Cc: Eric W Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-17pty: fix the cached path of the pty slave file descriptor in the masterLinus Torvalds1-2/+5
Christian Brauner reported that if you use the TIOCGPTPEER ioctl() to get a slave pty file descriptor, the resulting file descriptor doesn't look right in /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>. In particular, he wanted to use readlink() on /proc/self/fd/<fd> to get the pathname of the slave pty (basically implementing "ptsname{_r}()"). The reason for that was that we had generated the wrong 'struct path' when we create the pty in ptmx_open(). In particular, the dentry was correct, but the vfsmount pointed to the mount of the ptmx node. That _can_ be correct - in case you use "/dev/pts/ptmx" to open the master - but usually is not. The normal case is to use /dev/ptmx, which then looks up the pts/ directory, and then the vfsmount of the ptmx node is obviously the /dev directory, not the /dev/pts/ directory. We actually did have the right vfsmount available, but in the wrong place (it gets looked up in 'devpts_acquire()' when we get a reference to the pts filesystem), and so ptmx_open() used the wrong mnt pointer. The end result of this confusion was that the pty worked fine, but when if you did TIOCGPTPEER to get the slave side of the pty, end end result would also work, but have that dodgy 'struct path'. And then when doing "d_path()" on to get the pathname, the vfsmount would not match the root of the pts directory, and d_path() would return an empty pathname thinking that the entry had escaped a bind mount into another mount. This fixes the problem by making devpts_acquire() return the vfsmount for the pts filesystem, allowing ptmx_open() to trivially just use the right mount for the pts dentry, and create the proper 'struct path'. Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com&