Patch "devpts: fix error handling in devpts_mntget()" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

devpts: fix error handling in devpts_mntget()

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
devpts-fix-error-handling-in-devpts_mntget.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:49:18 -0800
Subject: devpts: fix error handling in devpts_mntget()

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>

commit c9cc8d01fb04117928830449388512a5047569c9 upstream.

If devpts_ptmx_path() returns an error code, then devpts_mntget() dereferences an ERR_PTR():

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff5
    IP: devpts_mntget+0x13f/0x280 fs/devpts/inode.c:173

Fix it by returning early in the error paths.

Reproducer:

    #define _GNU_SOURCE
    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <sched.h>
    #include <sys/ioctl.h>
    #define TIOCGPTPEER _IO('T', 0x41)

    int main()
    {
        for (;;) {
            int fd = open("/dev/ptmx", 0);
            unshare(CLONE_NEWNS);
            ioctl(fd, TIOCGPTPEER, 0);
        }
    }

---
 fs/devpts/inode.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -168,11 +168,11 @@ struct vfsmount *devpts_mntget(struct fi
 	dput(path.dentry);
 	if (err) {
 		mntput(path.mnt);
-		path.mnt = ERR_PTR(err);
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
 	if (DEVPTS_SB(path.mnt->mnt_sb) != fsi) {
 		mntput(path.mnt);
-		path.mnt = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 	}
 	return path.mnt;
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/pipe-fix-off-by-one-error-when-checking-buffer-limits.patch queue-4.15/crypto-hash-annotate-algorithms-taking-optional-key.patch queue-4.15/crypto-cryptd-pass-through-absence-of-setkey.patch queue-4.15/crypto-hash-prevent-using-keyed-hashes-without-setting-key.patch queue-4.15/ubifs-free-the-encrypted-symlink-target.patch queue-4.15/pipe-actually-allow-root-to-exceed-the-pipe-buffer-limits.patch queue-4.15/kernel-relay.c-revert-kernel-relay.c-fix-potential-memory-leak.patch queue-4.15/nfs-reject-request-for-id_legacy-key-without-auxdata.patch queue-4.15/crypto-poly1305-remove-setkey-method.patch queue-4.15/crypto-sha512-mb-initialize-pending-lengths-correctly.patch queue-4.15/devpts-fix-error-handling-in-devpts_mntget.patch queue-4.15/crypto-hash-introduce-crypto_hash_alg_has_setkey.patch queue-4.15/crypto-mcryptd-pass-through-absence-of-setkey.patch