linux-kernel - [PATCH -next 05/27] tty: Check tty->count instead of TTY_CLOSING in tty

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Message-Id: <1413491125-20134-6-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:25:03 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next 05/27] tty: Check tty->count instead of TTY_CLOSING in tty_reopen()

Although perhaps not obvious, the TTY_CLOSING bit is set when the
tty count has been decremented to 0 (which occurs while holding
tty_lock). The only other case when tty count is 0 during a re-open
is when a legacy BSD pty master has been opened in parallel but
after the pty slave, which is unsupported and returns an error.

Thus !tty->count contains the complete set of degenerate conditions
under which a tty open fails.

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

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 5b6253f..52bcdd3 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
 	struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;
 
-	if (test_bit(TTY_CLOSING, &tty->flags))
+	if (!tty->count)
 		return -EIO;
 
 	if (driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY &&
-- 
2.1.1

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