From e0426e6a09954d205da2d674a3d368d2715e3afd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Slaby Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:29:58 -0700 Subject: vt: hold console_sem across sysfs operations 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 Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Aristeu Rozanski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/vt.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c index e32a076..ab53a1d 100644 --- a/drivers/char/vt.c +++ b/drivers/char/vt.c @@ -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 -- cgit v1.1