tty: Fix BKL taken under a spinlock bug introduced in the BKL split
authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:32:36 +0000 (10:32 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:46:21 +0000 (14:46 -0800)
The fasync path takes the BKL (it probably doesn't need to in fact)
while holding the file_list spinlock.  You can't do that with the kernel
lock: it causes lock inversions and deadlocks.

Leave the BKL over that bit for the moment.

Identified by AKPM.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-and-Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/tty_io.c

index 684f0e0b175eddb9e25fe3ff1d45b8ce12fa5fcf..f15df40bc318fc90fd9825fab91a10a528e2d617 100644 (file)
@@ -516,7 +516,6 @@ static void do_tty_hangup(struct work_struct *work)
        /* inuse_filps is protected by the single kernel lock */
        lock_kernel();
        check_tty_count(tty, "do_tty_hangup");
-       unlock_kernel();
 
        file_list_lock();
        /* This breaks for file handles being sent over AF_UNIX sockets ? */
@@ -531,7 +530,6 @@ static void do_tty_hangup(struct work_struct *work)
        }
        file_list_unlock();
 
-       lock_kernel();
        tty_ldisc_hangup(tty);
 
        read_lock(&tasklist_lock);