devpts: return NULL pts 'priv' entry for non-devpts nodes
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 3 Sep 2016 18:02:50 +0000 (11:02 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 3 Sep 2016 18:02:50 +0000 (11:02 -0700)
commit3e423945ea94412283eaba8bfbe9d6e0a80b434f
tree996bdceda74012fd350d7fe78662c8f5e12c8688
parent0141af184adc7f6ea9bd2f9631a15704d0806f8b
devpts: return NULL pts 'priv' entry for non-devpts nodes

In commit 8ead9dd54716 ("devpts: more pty driver interface cleanups") I
made devpts_get_priv() just return the dentry->fs_data directly.  And
because I thought it wouldn't happen, I added a warning if you ever saw
a pts node that wasn't on devpts.

And no, that warning never triggered under any actual real use, but you
can trigger it by creating nonsensical pts nodes by hand.

So just revert the warning, and make devpts_get_priv() return NULL for
that case like it used to.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.6+
Cc: Eric W Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/devpts/inode.c