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| author | Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> | 2026-09-04 01:33:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> | 2026-09-04 12:58:04 +0200 |
| commit | 836b2fe544a5e9b5ce116622cb36fba33838c6fd (patch) | |
| tree | 95e38e4aaa0a6a78e373148b3d0af4aa2ab3d371 /Documentation/filesystems/devpts.rst | |
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selftests/bpf: Check that JMP32 pointer vs zero jumps are not predictedgrafted
Add jmp32_ptr_vs_zero_jne: the fall-through of the 32-bit compare, which
the verifier used to skip, contains an out of bounds map value access,
hence w/o the previous patch the program is accepted. See previous patch
for detailed description.
Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com>
Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260904083325.2083493-6-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b6324ab19 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.rst @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +===================== +The Devpts Filesystem +===================== + +Each mount of the devpts filesystem is now distinct such that ptys +and their indices allocated in one mount are independent from ptys +and their indices in all other mounts. + +All mounts of the devpts filesystem now create a ``/dev/pts/ptmx`` node +with permissions ``0000``. + +To retain backwards compatibility the a ptmx device node (aka any node +created with ``mknod name c 5 2``) when opened will look for an instance +of devpts under the name ``pts`` in the same directory as the ptmx device +node. + +As an option instead of placing a ``/dev/ptmx`` device node at ``/dev/ptmx`` +it is possible to place a symlink to ``/dev/pts/ptmx`` at ``/dev/ptmx`` or +to bind mount ``/dev/ptx/ptmx`` to ``/dev/ptmx``. If you opt for using +the devpts filesystem in this manner devpts should be mounted with +the ``ptmxmode=0666``, or ``chmod 0666 /dev/pts/ptmx`` should be called. + +Total count of pty pairs in all instances is limited by sysctls:: + + kernel.pty.max = 4096 - global limit + kernel.pty.reserve = 1024 - reserved for filesystems mounted from the initial mount namespace + kernel.pty.nr - current count of ptys + +Per-instance limit could be set by adding mount option ``max=<count>``. + +This feature was added in kernel 3.4 together with +``sysctl kernel.pty.reserve``. + +In kernels older than 3.4 sysctl ``kernel.pty.max`` works as per-instance limit. |