Commit 3ee175d9 authored by Peter Hurley's avatar Peter Hurley Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Don't hold tty_lock for ldisc release

The tty->ldisc_sem write lock is sufficient for serializing changes
to tty->ldisc; holding the tty lock is not required.
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 1bc8cde4
...@@ -764,6 +764,8 @@ static void tty_ldisc_kill(struct tty_struct *tty) ...@@ -764,6 +764,8 @@ static void tty_ldisc_kill(struct tty_struct *tty)
* Called during the final close of a tty/pty pair in order to shut down * Called during the final close of a tty/pty pair in order to shut down
* the line discpline layer. On exit the ldisc assigned is N_TTY and the * the line discpline layer. On exit the ldisc assigned is N_TTY and the
* ldisc has not been opened. * ldisc has not been opened.
*
* Holding ldisc_sem write lock serializes tty->ldisc changes.
*/ */
void tty_ldisc_release(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *o_tty) void tty_ldisc_release(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *o_tty)
...@@ -776,13 +778,9 @@ void tty_ldisc_release(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *o_tty) ...@@ -776,13 +778,9 @@ void tty_ldisc_release(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *o_tty)
tty_ldisc_debug(tty, "closing ldisc: %p\n", tty->ldisc); tty_ldisc_debug(tty, "closing ldisc: %p\n", tty->ldisc);
tty_ldisc_lock_pair(tty, o_tty); tty_ldisc_lock_pair(tty, o_tty);
tty_lock_pair(tty, o_tty);
tty_ldisc_kill(tty); tty_ldisc_kill(tty);
if (o_tty) if (o_tty)
tty_ldisc_kill(o_tty); tty_ldisc_kill(o_tty);
tty_unlock_pair(tty, o_tty);
tty_ldisc_unlock_pair(tty, o_tty); tty_ldisc_unlock_pair(tty, o_tty);
/* And the memory resources remaining (buffers, termios) will be /* And the memory resources remaining (buffers, termios) will be
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