vt: fix locking around vt_bind/vt_unbind
authorImre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:16:00 +0000 (00:16 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 9 Jan 2015 22:39:52 +0000 (14:39 -0800)
Currently vt_bind and vt_unbind access at least the con_driver object
and registered_con_driver array without holding the console lock. Fix
this by locking around the whole function in each case.

Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/vt/vt.c

index 9c046fbe851b8aa78b38aa0e4ee90786e5a10cd4..5d36c2358b4761adcc7acf5fb6e66ac309a8542a 100644 (file)
@@ -3318,11 +3318,8 @@ static int vt_bind(struct con_driver *con)
                if (first == 0 && last == MAX_NR_CONSOLES -1)
                        deflt = 1;
 
-               if (first != -1) {
-                       console_lock();
+               if (first != -1)
                        do_bind_con_driver(csw, first, last, deflt);
-                       console_unlock();
-               }
 
                first = -1;
                last = -1;
@@ -3362,9 +3359,7 @@ static int vt_unbind(struct con_driver *con)
                        deflt = 1;
 
                if (first != -1) {
-                       console_lock();
                        ret = do_unbind_con_driver(csw, first, last, deflt);
-                       console_unlock();
                        if (ret != 0)
                                return ret;
                }
@@ -3394,11 +3389,15 @@ static ssize_t store_bind(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
        struct con_driver *con = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
        int bind = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 0);
 
+       console_lock();
+
        if (bind)
                vt_bind(con);
        else
                vt_unbind(con);
 
+       console_unlock();
+
        return count;
 }