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authorAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>2008-10-13 10:37:26 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-13 09:51:40 -0700
commit9c9f4ded90a59eee84e15f5fd38c03d60184e112 (patch)
tree925a7f7c30136477b3f8551123fd86b355fd60fb /kernel
parent348eb12e5598be97400c749d3d93a71856ae0b2b (diff)
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tty: Add a kref count
Introduce a kref to the tty structure and use it to protect the tty->signal tty references. For now we don't introduce it for anything else. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c5
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 7ce2ebe84796..30de644a40c4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -802,6 +802,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
sig->leader = 0; /* session leadership doesn't inherit */
sig->tty_old_pgrp = NULL;
+ sig->tty = NULL;
sig->utime = sig->stime = sig->cutime = sig->cstime = cputime_zero;
sig->gtime = cputime_zero;
@@ -838,6 +839,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
void __cleanup_signal(struct signal_struct *sig)
{
exit_thread_group_keys(sig);
+ tty_kref_put(sig->tty);
kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig);
}
@@ -1227,7 +1229,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
p->nsproxy->pid_ns->child_reaper = p;
p->signal->leader_pid = pid;
- p->signal->tty = current->signal->tty;
+ tty_kref_put(p->signal->tty);
+ p->signal->tty = tty_kref_get(current->signal->tty);
set_task_pgrp(p, task_pgrp_nr(current));
set_task_session(p, task_session_nr(current));
attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, task_pgrp(current));
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 038a7bc0901d..234d9454294e 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1060,9 +1060,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setsid(void)
group_leader->signal->leader = 1;
__set_special_pids(sid);
- spin_lock(&group_leader->sighand->siglock);
- group_leader->signal->tty = NULL;
- spin_unlock(&group_leader->sighand->siglock);
+ proc_clear_tty(group_leader);
err = session;
out: