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Subject[PATCH 1/1] Char: vt, make sysfs operations atomic
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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>
---
drivers/char/vt.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index fa1ffbf..0043cff 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -2746,8 +2746,8 @@ 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;
}
}
@@ -2772,8 +2772,8 @@ 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
--
1.5.4.5


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