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tty: drop the pty lock during hangup
authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 9 May 2012 16:03:19 +0000 (17:03 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 9 May 2012 21:40:27 +0000 (14:40 -0700)
commitb1d679afd766cf425ba1cd2a0fd17451bd212f4a
treee1f46c9c1856c654bd52d9a32d19574754f16e76tree | snapshot (tar.gz zip)
parentfd11b42e3598779cb25feaefb1d534a39fc35009commit | diff
tty: drop the pty lock during hangup

In theory we don't need it, in practice we are hitting some ill understood
deadlock when we don't drop it. The old code dropped it here so we are not
undoing anything problematic for pty. If pty could be unloaded it would be
a problem but it can't.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/pty.c diff | blob | blame | history