linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/5] tty: Fix spinlock flavor in non-atomic __tty

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Date:	Wed,  6 Mar 2013 07:20:54 -0500
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] tty: Fix spinlock flavor in non-atomic __tty_hangup()

__tty_hangup() and tty_vhangup() cannot be called from atomic context,
so locks do not need to preserve the interrupt state (although,
still disable interrupts).

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index e454f1a..f9d4acf 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -605,7 +605,6 @@ static void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	struct file *filp, *f = NULL;
 	struct tty_file_private *priv;
 	int    closecount = 0, n;
-	unsigned long flags;
 	int refs;
 
 	if (!tty)
@@ -654,7 +653,7 @@ static void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	while (refs--)
 		tty_kref_put(tty);
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irq(&tty->ctrl_lock);
 	clear_bit(TTY_THROTTLED, &tty->flags);
 	clear_bit(TTY_PUSH, &tty->flags);
 	clear_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &tty->flags);
@@ -663,7 +662,7 @@ static void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	tty->session = NULL;
 	tty->pgrp = NULL;
 	tty->ctrl_status = 0;
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&tty->ctrl_lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * If one of the devices matches a console pointer, we
-- 
1.8.1.2

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