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vt: hold console_sem across sysfs operations

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Hold console sem while creating/destroying sysfs files.  Serialisation is
so far done by BKL held in tty release_dev and chrdev_open, but no other
locks are held in open path.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jiri Slaby 2008-07-23 21:29:58 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent bbe48ecc7f
commit e0426e6a09
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -2749,8 +2749,8 @@ static int con_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
tty->termios->c_iflag |= IUTF8;
else
tty->termios->c_iflag &= ~IUTF8;
release_console_sem();
vcs_make_sysfs(tty);
release_console_sem();
return ret;
}
}
@ -2775,8 +2775,8 @@ static void con_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
if (vc)
vc->vc_tty = NULL;
tty->driver_data = NULL;
release_console_sem();
vcs_remove_sysfs(tty);
release_console_sem();
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
/*
* tty_mutex is released, but we still hold BKL, so there is