pty: fix possible use after free of tty->driver_data
This change fixes a bug for a corner case where we have the the last release from a pty master/slave coming from a previously opened /dev/tty file. When this happens, the tty->driver_data can be stale, due to all ptmx or pts/N files having already been closed before (and thus the inode related to these files, which tty->driver_data points to, being already freed/destroyed). The fix here is to keep a reference on the opened master ptmx inode. We maintain the inode referenced until the final pty_unix98_shutdown, and only pass this inode to devpts_kill_index. Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.29+ Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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