A master pty should never be a controlling tty in Linux; if the master pty is specified to ioctl(TIOCSCTTY), silently substitute the slave pty as the controlling tty.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <[email protected]> --- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index 9fa5a4f..2f9c1c6 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -2862,7 +2862,7 @@ long tty_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) no_tty(); return 0; case TIOCSCTTY: - return tiocsctty(tty, file, arg); + return tiocsctty(real_tty, file, arg); case TIOCGPGRP: return tiocgpgrp(tty, real_tty, p); case TIOCSPGRP: -- 2.6.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

