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authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>2010-03-12 07:23:15 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-19 15:17:54 +0100
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parentuartlite: Fix build on sparc. (diff)
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hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove
Alan pointed out a race in the code where hvc_remove is invoked. The recent virtio_console work is the first user of hvc_remove(). Alan describes it thus: The hvc_console assumes that a close and remove call can't occur at the same time. In addition tty_hangup(tty) is problematic as tty_hangup is asynchronous itself.... So this can happen hvc_close hvc_remove hung up ? - no lock tty = hp->tty unlock lock hp->tty = NULL unlock notify del kref_put the hvc struct close completes tty is destroyed tty_hangup dead tty tty->ops will be NULL NULL->... This patch adds some tty krefs and also converts to using tty_vhangup(). Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> CC: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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