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| author |   Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> | 2014-11-05 12:12:44 -0500 |
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| committer |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-11-05 18:24:10 -0800 |
| commit | 3ee175d9d9f9be0e345f7237ee921e58f68afdd7 (patch) | |
| tree | e8434c32bdb6a6321e8e6a9b3890927f7e2e791f /drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | |
| parent | 8250_pci: Added driver for Endrun Technologies PTP PCIe card. (diff) | |
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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: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c index 2d822aa259b2..332a622b7203 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c @@ -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 * the line discpline layer. On exit the ldisc assigned is N_TTY and the * 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) @@ -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_lock_pair(tty, o_tty); - tty_lock_pair(tty, o_tty); - tty_ldisc_kill(tty); if (o_tty) tty_ldisc_kill(o_tty); - - tty_unlock_pair(tty, o_tty); tty_ldisc_unlock_pair(tty, o_tty); /* And the memory resources remaining (buffers, termios) will be |