[PATCH] tty: fix the locking for signal->session in disassociate_ctty
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:52:53 +0000 (00:52 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:48:31 +0000 (09:48 -0800)
commit 24ec839c431eb79bb8f6abc00c4e1eb3b8c4d517 while fixing the locking for
signal->tty got the locking wrong for signal->session.  This places our
accesses of signal->session back under the tasklist_lock where they belong.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/tty_io.c

index ac937f767f23c9aa0f70be42156e72feb29d9a9e..abfe24d28c512dca0636d892021ad9bf2c7d631a 100644 (file)
@@ -1496,7 +1496,6 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
 {
        struct tty_struct *tty;
        int tty_pgrp = -1;
-       int session;
 
        lock_kernel();
 
@@ -1530,7 +1529,6 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
 
        spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
        current->signal->tty_old_pgrp = 0;
-       session = process_session(current);
        spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 
        mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
@@ -1549,7 +1547,7 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
 
        /* Now clear signal->tty under the lock */
        read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-       session_clear_tty(session);
+       session_clear_tty(process_session(current));
        read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
        unlock_kernel();
 }