Char: vt_ioctl, fix BKL imbalance
authorJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 22:43:59 +0000 (15:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:11:12 +0000 (16:11 -0700)
Stanse found (again) a BKL imbalance in vt_ioctl.

It's easily triggerable by ioctl(dev_tty_fd, VT_SETACTIVATE, NULL);

Introduced by

commit d3b5cffcf84a8bdc7073dce4745d67c72629af85                                 Author: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 19 13:13:26 2009 -0700

    vt: add an activate and lock

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c

index 29c651ab0d7891f1504cf5a222a11a6f269c261b..6b36ee56e6fe972db14dd1f4785e5cf173468acf 100644 (file)
@@ -981,8 +981,10 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file,
                        goto eperm;
 
                if (copy_from_user(&vsa, (struct vt_setactivate __user *)arg,
-                                               sizeof(struct vt_setactivate)))
-                       return -EFAULT;
+                                       sizeof(struct vt_setactivate))) {
+                       ret = -EFAULT;
+                       goto out;
+               }
                if (vsa.console == 0 || vsa.console > MAX_NR_CONSOLES)
                        ret = -ENXIO;
                else {