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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)
commitd648281782150215a2e70d32fe396e2507a3aa00
tree996bdceda74012fd350d7fe78662c8f5e12c8688
parent71e74c3aa6e58b2d29f93d2131990fbdfbbeb2d8
devpts: return NULL pts 'priv' entry for non-devpts nodes

In commit ffef165035f8 ("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