tty: Don't hold tty_lock for ldisc release
authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:12:44 +0000 (12:12 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 6 Nov 2014 02:24:10 +0000 (18:24 -0800)
The tty->ldisc_sem write lock is sufficient for serializing changes
to tty->ldisc; holding the tty lock is not required.

Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c

index 2d822aa259b2f73ad93212c949e900701d776f04..332a622b720356885429841c31ea155bf97317c6 100644 (file)
@@ -764,6 +764,8 @@ static void tty_ldisc_kill(struct tty_struct *tty)
  *     Called during the final close of a tty/pty pair in order to shut down
  *     the line discpline layer. On exit the ldisc assigned is N_TTY and the
  *     ldisc has not been opened.
+ *
+ *     Holding ldisc_sem write lock serializes tty->ldisc changes.
  */
 
 void tty_ldisc_release(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *o_tty)
@@ -776,13 +778,9 @@ void tty_ldisc_release(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *o_tty)
        tty_ldisc_debug(tty, "closing ldisc: %p\n", tty->ldisc);
 
        tty_ldisc_lock_pair(tty, o_tty);
-       tty_lock_pair(tty, o_tty);
-
        tty_ldisc_kill(tty);
        if (o_tty)
                tty_ldisc_kill(o_tty);
-
-       tty_unlock_pair(tty, o_tty);
        tty_ldisc_unlock_pair(tty, o_tty);
 
        /* And the memory resources remaining (buffers, termios) will be