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    tty: fix fu_list abuse · d996b62a
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    tty: fix fu_list abuse
    
    tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling.
    
    If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode
    removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is
    because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb
    list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose).
    This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean".
    
    Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct
    at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking
    file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes
    and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug.
    
    The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take
    the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors.
    This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule
    anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers.
    
    [ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the
    driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether
    that will ever be worth implementing. ]
    
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
    Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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