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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-06-05 22:46:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-06-06 11:29:12 -0700
commit81c6ce9bd3ed3a88caeb9ed97d874450d53339dc (patch)
tree90e93d92be9aa37fa003c37a3cd5da732d0d4882 /drivers/char/vt.c
parentdfcceb26f89da86ec4ac9583c4515504af8c6c84 (diff)
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vt: fix vc_resize locking
Lockdep says we can't take tasklist lock or sighand lock inside ctrl_lock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/vt.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/vt.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index b8b2498f57af..935f1c207a1f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ int vc_resize(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int cols, unsigned int lines)
if (vc->vc_tty) {
struct winsize ws, *cws = &vc->vc_tty->winsize;
- unsigned long flags;
+ struct pid *pgrp = NULL;
memset(&ws, 0, sizeof(ws));
ws.ws_row = vc->vc_rows;
@@ -917,11 +917,14 @@ int vc_resize(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int cols, unsigned int lines)
ws.ws_ypixel = vc->vc_scan_lines;
mutex_lock(&vc->vc_tty->termios_mutex);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&vc->vc_tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
- if ((ws.ws_row != cws->ws_row || ws.ws_col != cws->ws_col) &&
- vc->vc_tty->pgrp)
+ spin_lock_irq(&vc->vc_tty->ctrl_lock);
+ if ((ws.ws_row != cws->ws_row || ws.ws_col != cws->ws_col))
+ pgrp = get_pid(vc->vc_tty->pgrp);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&vc->vc_tty->ctrl_lock);
+ if (pgrp) {
kill_pgrp(vc->vc_tty->pgrp, SIGWINCH, 1);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vc->vc_tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
+ put_pid(pgrp);
+ }
*cws = ws;
mutex_unlock(&vc->vc_tty->termios_mutex);
}