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author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2007-03-18 14:45:44 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-03-18 16:40:06 -0400 |
commit | d9c1e9a8fff512bb6c43461181d4360f1c8cfd6d (patch) | |
tree | d77f4e779065c7d52a6b17cca5fb1a23fac505a7 /CREDITS | |
parent | aeb3f6d10ebfd5607f4bd3920b3b730a992ab82c (diff) |
[PATCH] tty: Fix two reported pid leaks
These leaks were reported by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marians@gmail.com>
and I have been able to very by inspection they are possible.
When converting tty_io.c to store pids as struct pid pointers instead
of pid_t values it appears I overlooked two places where we stop using
the pid value. The very obvious one is in do_tty_hangup, and the one
the less obvious one in __proc_set_tty.
When looking into the code __proc_set_tty only has pids that need to
be put because of failures of other parts of the code to properly
perform hangup processing. Fixing the leak here in __proc_set_tty
is easy and obviously correct so I am doing that first.
Fixing the places that should be performing hangup processing is much
less obviously correct. So those I'm aiming those patches at -mm.
for now, so the can age a while before they are merged.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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