A common security idiom is to hangup the current tty (via vhangup())
after forking but before execing a root shell. This hangs up any
existing opens which other processes may have and ensures subsequent
opens have the necessary permissions to open the root shell tty/pty.
Reset the TTY_HUPPED state after the driver has successfully
returned the opened tty (perform the reset while the tty is locked
to avoid racing with concurrent hangups).
Reported-by: Heorhi Valakhanovich <valahanovich@tut.by>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12
Tested-by: Heorhi Valakhanovich <valahanovich@tut.by>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
filp->f_op = &tty_fops;
goto retry_open;
}
+ clear_bit(TTY_HUPPED, &tty->flags);
tty_unlock(tty);