If devpts failed to initialize, it would store an ERR_PTR in the global
devpts_mnt. A subsequent open of /dev/ptmx would call devpts_new_index,
which would dereference devpts_mnt and crash.
Avoid storing invalid values in devpts_mnt; leave it NULL instead. Make
both devpts_new_index and devpts_pty_new fail gracefully with ENODEV in
that case, which then becomes the return value to the userspace open call
on /dev/ptmx.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded static]
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Josh Triplett
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