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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-05-14 17:11:46 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-05-15 10:19:30 -0700
commit487ad7efbf6b0ec338cdfc2a7b0fbeb53f17a94c (patch)
treee2bc37cc97680403bf664a5944b10cdd907b9f10 /drivers
parent8568dae21e186fbb111bbe6583033a33fe26f83d (diff)
downloadlinux-487ad7efbf6b0ec338cdfc2a7b0fbeb53f17a94c.tar.gz
tty: fix BKL related leak and crash
Enabling the BKL to be lockdep tracked uncovered the following
upstream kernel bug in the tty code, which caused a BKL
reference leak:

  ================================================
  [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
  ------------------------------------------------
  dmesg/3121 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
  1 lock held by dmesg/3121:
   #0:  (kernel_mutex){--..}, at: [<c02f34d9>] opost+0x24/0x194

this might explain some of the atomicity warnings and crashes
that -tip tree testing has been experiencing since the BKL
was converted back to a spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/n_tty.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/n_tty.c b/drivers/char/n_tty.c
index 19105ec203f7..8096389b0dc2 100644
--- a/drivers/char/n_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/char/n_tty.c
@@ -282,16 +282,20 @@ static int opost(unsigned char c, struct tty_struct *tty)
 			if (O_ONLRET(tty))
 				tty->column = 0;
 			if (O_ONLCR(tty)) {
-				if (space < 2)
+				if (space < 2) {
+					unlock_kernel();
 					return -1;
+				}
 				tty_put_char(tty, '\r');
 				tty->column = 0;
 			}
 			tty->canon_column = tty->column;
 			break;
 		case '\r':
-			if (O_ONOCR(tty) && tty->column == 0)
+			if (O_ONOCR(tty) && tty->column == 0) {
+				unlock_kernel();
 				return 0;
+			}
 			if (O_OCRNL(tty)) {
 				c = '\n';
 				if (O_ONLRET(tty))
@@ -303,10 +307,13 @@ static int opost(unsigned char c, struct tty_struct *tty)
 		case '\t':
 			spaces = 8 - (tty->column & 7);
 			if (O_TABDLY(tty) == XTABS) {
-				if (space < spaces)
+				if (space < spaces) {
+					unlock_kernel();
 					return -1;
+				}
 				tty->column += spaces;
 				tty->ops->write(tty, "        ", spaces);
+				unlock_kernel();
 				return 0;
 			}
 			tty->column += spaces;