On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > +static inline bool is_dev_ptmx(struct inode *inode) > +{ > + return inode->i_rdev == MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, PTMX_MINOR); > +} I'm not sure whether it matters, but I think a FUSE filesystem should be able to create a fake device that passes this check. fuse_init_inode() calls init_special_inode() with a user-supplied rdev for character devices. Is that a problem?