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authorAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>2008-10-13 11:40:43 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-13 18:51:41 +0200
commit934e6ebf96e8c1a0f299e64129fdaebc1132a427 (patch)
treeab4bd754997b097f06a5cfefd9e3671d56e628f4
parenttty: the vhangup syscall is racy (diff)
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tty: Redo current tty locking
Currently it is sometimes locked by the tty mutex and sometimes by the sighand lock. The latter is in fact correct and now we can hand back referenced objects we can fix this up without problems around sleeping functions. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c18
-rw-r--r--drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/dquot.c2
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/hooks.c2
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index b5f57d0b30ee..f40298e9873a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -739,13 +739,11 @@ void tty_vhangup_self(void)
{
struct tty_struct *tty;
- mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
tty = get_current_tty();
if (tty) {
tty_vhangup(tty);
tty_kref_put(tty);
}
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
}
/**
@@ -801,11 +799,9 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
struct pid *tty_pgrp = NULL;
- mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
tty = get_current_tty();
if (tty) {
tty_pgrp = get_pid(tty->pgrp);
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
lock_kernel();
if (on_exit && tty->driver->type != TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY)
tty_vhangup(tty);
@@ -822,7 +818,6 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
kill_pgrp(old_pgrp, SIGCONT, on_exit);
put_pid(old_pgrp);
}
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
return;
}
if (tty_pgrp) {
@@ -837,7 +832,6 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
current->signal->tty_old_pgrp = NULL;
spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
- mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
tty = get_current_tty();
if (tty) {
unsigned long flags;
@@ -854,7 +848,6 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
" = NULL", tty);
#endif
}
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
/* Now clear signal->tty under the lock */
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
@@ -3180,14 +3173,11 @@ static void proc_set_tty(struct task_struct *tsk, struct tty_struct *tty)
struct tty_struct *get_current_tty(void)
{
struct tty_struct *tty;
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&tty_mutex));
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&current->sighand->siglock, flags);
tty = tty_kref_get(current->signal->tty);
- /*
- * session->tty can be changed/cleared from under us, make sure we
- * issue the load. The obtained pointer, when not NULL, is valid as
- * long as we hold tty_mutex.
- */
- barrier();
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->sighand->siglock, flags);
return tty;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_current_tty);
diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c b/drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c
index 3ef5425d0eb8..84fbc90480dc 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c
@@ -431,6 +431,7 @@ fs3270_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
tty = get_current_tty();
if (!tty || tty->driver->major != IBM_TTY3270_MAJOR) {
tty_kref_put(tty);
+ mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
rc = -ENODEV;
goto out;
}
diff --git a/fs/dquot.c b/fs/dquot.c
index 7417a6ca3129..ad7e59003e04 100644
--- a/fs/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/dquot.c
@@ -895,9 +895,7 @@ static void print_warning(struct dquot *dquot, const int warntype)
warntype == QUOTA_NL_BSOFTBELOW || !need_print_warning(dquot))
return;
- mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
tty = get_current_tty();
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
if (!tty)
return;
tty_write_message(tty, dquot->dq_sb->s_id);
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 089d61a23952..48881394fbd4 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -2121,9 +2121,7 @@ static inline void flush_unauthorized_files(struct files_struct *files)
long j = -1;
int drop_tty = 0;
- mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
tty = get_current_tty();
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
if (tty) {
file_list_lock();
file = list_entry(tty->tty_files.next, typeof(*file), f_u.fu_list);