linux-kernel - [PATCH] tty: make sure that proc_clear

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Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:52:34 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tty: make sure that proc_clear_tty stores the cpu flags

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>

proc_clear_tty() gets called with interrupts off (while holding the task list
lock) from sys_setid. This means that it needs the _irqsave version of the
locking primitives.

Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
Tested-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
---

 drivers/char/tty_io.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 7053d63..3f48d88 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3032,11 +3032,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_devnum);
 
 void proc_clear_tty(struct task_struct *p)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
-	spin_lock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
 	tty = p->signal->tty;
 	p->signal->tty = NULL;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
 	tty_kref_put(tty);
 }
 

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