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author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2016-06-02 10:29:47 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-06-05 10:36:01 -0700 |
commit | eedf265aa003b4781de24cfed40a655a664457e6 (patch) | |
tree | 0e37f0a0c6fd15f7528aa3d3bfaec5685f083282 /drivers/tty/Kconfig | |
parent | 049ec1b5a76d34a6980cccdb7c0baeb4eed7a993 (diff) | |
download | linux-eedf265aa003b4781de24cfed40a655a664457e6.tar.bz2 |
devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem.
The /dev/ptmx device node is changed to lookup the directory entry "pts"
in the same directory as the /dev/ptmx device node was opened in. If
there is a "pts" entry and that entry is a devpts filesystem /dev/ptmx
uses that filesystem. Otherwise the open of /dev/ptmx fails.
The DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES configuration option is removed, so that
userspace can now safely depend on each mount of devpts creating a new
instance of the filesystem.
Each mount of devpts is now a separate and equal filesystem.
Reserved ttys are now available to all instances of devpts where the
mounter is in the initial mount namespace.
A new vfs helper path_pts is introduced that finds a directory entry
named "pts" in the directory of the passed in path, and changes the
passed in path to point to it. The helper path_pts uses a function
path_parent_directory that was factored out of follow_dotdot.
In the implementation of devpts:
- devpts_mnt is killed as it is no longer meaningful if all mounts of
devpts are equal.
- pts_sb_from_inode is replaced by just inode->i_sb as all cached
inodes in the tty layer are now from the devpts filesystem.
- devpts_add_ref is rolled into the new function devpts_ptmx. And the
unnecessary inode hold is removed.
- devpts_del_ref is renamed devpts_release and reduced to just a
deacrivate_super.
- The newinstance mount option continues to be accepted but is now
ignored.
In devpts_fs.h definitions for when !CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS are removed as
they are never used.
Documentation/filesystems/devices.txt is updated to describe the current
situation.
This has been verified to work properly on openwrt-15.05, centos5,
centos6, centos7, debian-6.0.2, debian-7.9, debian-8.2, ubuntu-14.04.3,
ubuntu-15.10, fedora23, magia-5, mint-17.3, opensuse-42.1,
slackware-14.1, gentoo-20151225 (13.0?), archlinux-2015-12-01. With the
caveat that on centos6 and on slackware-14.1 that there wind up being
two instances of the devpts filesystem mounted on /dev/pts, the lower
copy does not end up getting used.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/Kconfig index 82c4d2e45319..95103054c0e4 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/tty/Kconfig @@ -120,17 +120,6 @@ config UNIX98_PTYS All modern Linux systems use the Unix98 ptys. Say Y unless you're on an embedded system and want to conserve memory. -config DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES - bool "Support multiple instances of devpts" - depends on UNIX98_PTYS - default n - ---help--- - Enable support for multiple instances of devpts filesystem. - If you want to have isolated PTY namespaces (eg: in containers), - say Y here. Otherwise, say N. If enabled, each mount of devpts - filesystem with the '-o newinstance' option will create an - independent PTY namespace. - config LEGACY_PTYS bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support" default y |