TTY: pty, fix pty counting

tty_operations->remove is normally called like:
queue_release_one_tty
 ->tty_shutdown
   ->tty_driver_remove_tty
     ->tty_operations->remove

However tty_shutdown() is called from queue_release_one_tty() only if
tty_operations->shutdown is NULL. But for pty, it is not.
pty_unix98_shutdown() is used there as ->shutdown.

So tty_operations->remove of pty (i.e. pty_unix98_remove()) is never
called. This results in invalid pty_count. I.e. what can be seen in
/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr.

I see this was already reported at:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/370
But it was not fixed since then.

This patch is kind of a hackish way. The problem lies in ->install. We
allocate there another tty (so-called tty->link). So ->install is
called once, but ->remove twice, for both tty and tty->link. The fix
here is to count both tty and tty->link and divide the count by 2 for
user.

And to have ->remove called, let's make tty_driver_remove_tty() global
and call that from pty_unix98_shutdown() (tty_operations->shutdown).

While at it, let's document that when ->shutdown is defined,
tty_shutdown() is not called.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/pty.c b/drivers/tty/pty.c
index 98b6e3b..e809e9d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/pty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c
@@ -446,8 +446,19 @@ static inline void legacy_pty_init(void) { }
 int pty_limit = NR_UNIX98_PTY_DEFAULT;
 static int pty_limit_min;
 static int pty_limit_max = NR_UNIX98_PTY_MAX;
+static int tty_count;
 static int pty_count;
 
+static inline void pty_inc_count(void)
+{
+	pty_count = (++tty_count) / 2;
+}
+
+static inline void pty_dec_count(void)
+{
+	pty_count = (--tty_count) / 2;
+}
+
 static struct cdev ptmx_cdev;
 
 static struct ctl_table pty_table[] = {
@@ -542,6 +553,7 @@ static struct tty_struct *pts_unix98_lookup(struct tty_driver *driver,
 
 static void pty_unix98_shutdown(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
+	tty_driver_remove_tty(tty->driver, tty);
 	/* We have our own method as we don't use the tty index */
 	kfree(tty->termios);
 }
@@ -588,7 +600,8 @@ static int pty_unix98_install(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
 	 */
 	tty_driver_kref_get(driver);
 	tty->count++;
-	pty_count++;
+	pty_inc_count(); /* tty */
+	pty_inc_count(); /* tty->link */
 	return 0;
 err_free_mem:
 	deinitialize_tty_struct(o_tty);
@@ -602,7 +615,7 @@ err_free_tty:
 
 static void pty_unix98_remove(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
-	pty_count--;
+	pty_dec_count();
 }
 
 static const struct tty_operations ptm_unix98_ops = {