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    TTY: do not reset master's packet mode · b81273a1
    Jiri Slaby authored
    Now that login from util-linux is forced to drop all references to a
    TTY which it wants to hangup (to reach reference count 1) we are
    seeing issues with telnet. When login closes its last reference to the
    slave PTY, it also resets packet mode on the *master* side. And we
    have a race here.
    
    What telnet does is fork+exec of `login'. Then there are two
    scenarios:
    * `login' closes the slave TTY and resets thus master's packet mode,
      but even now telnet properly sets the mode, or
    * `telnetd' sets packet mode on the master, `login' closes the slave
      TTY and resets master's packet mode.
    
    The former case is OK. However the latter happens in much more cases,
    by the order of magnitude to be precise. So when one tries to login to
    such a messed telnet setup, they see the following:
    inux login:
                ogin incorrect
    
    Note the missing first letters -- telnet thinks it is still in the
    packet mode, so when it receives "linux login" from `login', it
    considers "l" as the type of the packet and strips it.
    
    SuS does not mention how the implementation should behave. Both BSDs I
    checked (Free and Net) do not reset the flag upon the last close.
    
    By this I am resurrecting an old bug, see References. We are hitting
    it regularly now, i.e. with updated util-linux, ergo login.
    
    Here, I am changing a behavior introduced back in 2.1 times. It would
    better have a long time testing before goes upstream.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
    Cc: Bryan Mason <bmason@redhat.com>
    References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/11/223
    References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504703
    References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797042Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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