linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt: avoid BUG_ON in con_shutdown when con

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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:52:22 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: avoid BUG_ON in con_shutdown when con_open returns
 with error

> I still wonder though if really the BUG_ON is ok, or I still didn't got
> that code right. Even if it returns -ERESTARTSYS we will hit that
> BUG_ON, if vc->port.tty != tty no? Or that is what the BUG_ON is trying
> to catch?

The code is trying to trap a locking error on hangup cases I think.
Although the console code currently handles this via its own different
locking so is a bit of a mess - it wants moving to the tty kref stuff
properly but thats not yet been done.

> While looking I noted a minor thing, in tty_open we don't need to check
> retval again in one place, as !retval is always true, because we return
> earlier (in retval = tty_add_file ...):

Agreed - that change

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>

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