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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-10-19 08:33:21 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-10-19 08:33:21 -0700
commita0340703981baa6cc1e9c7c768095a0a4e718daf (patch)
tree36486da94ffe0c236b9c98aac58971a9dd8da34b /drivers/tty
parent5fbe46b67680c27aeb56228dab8cfe25f8f8f83d (diff)
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Revert "TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally"
This reverts commit 631180aca723cb92e128fdac5fd144e913ca84e5. It caused problems when /dev/tty is a pty: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/12/401 Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/tty_io.c21
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 0425170d9ed6..767ecbb4761a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@ int tty_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
static int tty_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
- struct tty_struct *tty;
+ struct tty_struct *tty = NULL;
int noctty, retval;
struct tty_driver *driver;
int index;
@@ -1892,14 +1892,17 @@ retry_open:
return -ENODEV;
}
got_driver:
- /* check whether we're reopening an existing tty */
- tty = tty_driver_lookup_tty(driver, inode, index);
- if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
- tty_unlock();
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
- tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
- tty_free_file(filp);
- return PTR_ERR(tty);
+ if (!tty) {
+ /* check whether we're reopening an existing tty */
+ tty = tty_driver_lookup_tty(driver, inode, index);
+
+ if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
+ tty_unlock();
+ mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+ tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
+ tty_free_file(filp);
+ return PTR_ERR(tty);
+ }
}
if (tty) {