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tty: Reset hupped state on open

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>
Peter Hurley 11 years ago
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drivers/tty/tty_io.c

@@ -2086,6 +2086,7 @@ retry_open:
 			filp->f_op = &tty_fops;
 		goto retry_open;
 	}
+	clear_bit(TTY_HUPPED, &tty->flags);
 	tty_unlock(tty);