[Devel] [PATCH 6/7]: Check for user-space mount of /dev/pts

[sukadev at us.ibm.com]

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/7]: Check for user-space mount of /dev/pts

When the pts namespace is cloned, the /dev/pts is not useful unless it
is remounted from the user space.

If user-space clones pts namespace but does not remount /dev/pts, it
would end up using the /dev/pts mount from parent-pts-ns but allocate
the pts indices from current pts ns.

This patch (hack ?) prevents creation of PTYs in user space unless
user-space mounts /dev/pts.

(While this patch can be folded into others, keeping this separate
for now for easier review (and to highlight the hack :-)

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at us.ibm.com>
---
 fs/devpts/inode.c         |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/devpts_fs.h |   20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1/include/linux/devpts_fs.h
===================================================================
--- 2.6.25-rc5-mm1.orig/include/linux/devpts_fs.h	2008-03-24 20:08:33.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.25-rc5-mm1/include/linux/devpts_fs.h	2008-03-24 20:08:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct pts_namespace {
 	struct kref kref;
 	struct idr allocated_ptys;
 	struct vfsmount *mnt;
+	int user_mounted;
 };
 
 extern struct pts_namespace init_pts_ns;
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ extern struct pts_namespace init_pts_ns;
 #define DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC 	0x1cd1
 static inline struct pts_namespace *pts_ns_from_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
+	struct pts_namespace *ns;
+
 	/*
 	 * Need this bug-on for now to catch any cases in tty_open()
 	 * or release_dev() I may have missed.
@@ -43,7 +46,22 @@ static inline struct pts_namespace *pts_
 	 * should not need a lock here.
 	 */
 
-	return (struct pts_namespace *)inode->i_sb->s_fs_info;
+	ns = (struct pts_namespace *)inode->i_sb->s_fs_info;
+
+	/*
+	 * If user-space did not mount pts ns after cloning pts namespace,
+	 * the child process would end up accessing devpts mount of the
+	 * parent but use allocated_ptys from the cloned pts ns.
+	 *
+	 * This check prevents creating ptys unless user-space mounts
+	 * devpts  in the new pts namespace.
+	 *
+	 * Is there a cleaner way to prevent this ?
+	 */
+	if (!ns->user_mounted)
+		return NULL;
+
+	return ns;
 }
 
 static inline struct pts_namespace *current_pts_ns(void)
Index: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1/fs/devpts/inode.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.25-rc5-mm1.orig/fs/devpts/inode.c	2008-03-24 20:08:33.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.25-rc5-mm1/fs/devpts/inode.c	2008-03-24 20:08:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -201,8 +201,11 @@ static int devpts_get_sb(struct file_sys
 	if (IS_ERR(sb))
 		return PTR_ERR(sb);
 
-	if (sb->s_root)
+	if (sb->s_root) {
+		if (!(flags & MS_KERNMOUNT))
+			ns->user_mounted = 1;
 		return simple_set_mnt(mnt, sb);
+	}
 
 	sb->s_flags = flags;
 	err = devpts_fill_super(sb, data, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0);
@@ -248,6 +251,10 @@ int devpts_new_index(struct pts_namespac
 	int index;
 	int idr_ret;
 
+	if (!pts_ns || !pts_ns->user_mounted) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "devpts_new_index() without user_mount\n");
+		return -ENOSYS;
+	}
 retry:
 	if (!idr_pre_get(&pts_ns->allocated_ptys, GFP_KERNEL)) {
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -273,7 +280,7 @@ retry:
 
 void devpts_kill_index(struct pts_namespace *pts_ns, int idx)
 {
-
+	BUG_ON(!pts_ns->user_mounted);
 	down(&allocated_ptys_lock);
 	idr_remove(&pts_ns->allocated_ptys, idx);
 	up(&allocated_ptys_lock);
@@ -293,6 +300,11 @@ int devpts_pty_new( struct pts_namespace
 	BUG_ON(driver->type != TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY);
 	BUG_ON(driver->subtype != PTY_TYPE_SLAVE);
 
+	if (!pts_ns || !pts_ns->user_mounted) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "devpts_pty_new() without user_mount\n");
+		return -ENOSYS;
+	}
+
 	mnt = pts_ns->mnt;
 	root = mnt->mnt_root;
 
@@ -332,6 +344,11 @@ struct tty_struct *devpts_get_tty(struct
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
 
+	if (!pts_ns || !pts_ns->user_mounted) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "devpts_get_tty() without user_mount\n");
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
+	}
+
 	mnt = pts_ns->mnt;
 
 	dentry = get_node(mnt->mnt_root, number);
@@ -353,6 +370,10 @@ void devpts_pty_kill(struct pts_namespac
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct dentry *root;
 
+	if (!pts_ns || !pts_ns->user_mounted) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "devpts_pty_kill() without user_mount\n");
+		BUG_ON(1);
+	}
 	root = pts_ns->mnt->mnt_root;
 
 	dentry = get_node(root, number);
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