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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2010-06-01 22:53:03 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-10 22:47:43 +0200
commit83ceb67d7dfe6aedf0e47dd6887b7b3c753542b2 (patch)
treeae45ce855037966218ebcf61c9290117d29a2cb0 /drivers/video/console
parenttty: never hold BTM while getting tty_mutex (diff)
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tty: fix console_sem lock order
vgacon_do_font_op releases and reacquires the BTM while holding console_sem. This violates the rule that BTM has to be the outer lock whenever we hold both. There does not seem to be any reason to give up the BTM here, so just stop doing that. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/console')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/console/vgacon.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
index 71970057c118..54e32c513610 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
@@ -1108,7 +1108,6 @@ static int vgacon_do_font_op(struct vgastate *state,char *arg,int set,int ch512)
charmap += 4 * cmapsz;
#endif
- tty_unlock();
spin_lock_irq(&vga_lock);
/* First, the Sequencer */
vga_wseq(state->vgabase, VGA_SEQ_RESET, 0x1);
@@ -1192,7 +1191,6 @@ static int vgacon_do_font_op(struct vgastate *state,char *arg,int set,int ch512)
vga_wattr(state->vgabase, VGA_AR_ENABLE_DISPLAY, 0);
}
spin_unlock_irq(&vga_lock);
- tty_lock();
return 0;
}