[PATCH 2/5] tty: Fix spinlock flavor in non-atomic __tty_hangup()

From: Peter Hurley
Date: Wed Mar 06 2013 - 07:21:44 EST


__tty_hangup() and tty_vhangup() cannot be called from atomic context,
so locks do not need to preserve the interrupt state (although,
still disable interrupts).

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index e454f1a..f9d4acf 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -605,7 +605,6 @@ static void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
struct file *filp, *f = NULL;
struct tty_file_private *priv;
int closecount = 0, n;
- unsigned long flags;
int refs;

if (!tty)
@@ -654,7 +653,7 @@ static void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
while (refs--)
tty_kref_put(tty);

- spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
+ spin_lock_irq(&tty->ctrl_lock);
clear_bit(TTY_THROTTLED, &tty->flags);
clear_bit(TTY_PUSH, &tty->flags);
clear_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &tty->flags);
@@ -663,7 +662,7 @@ static void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
tty->session = NULL;
tty->pgrp = NULL;
tty->ctrl_status = 0;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&tty->ctrl_lock);

/*
* If one of the devices matches a console pointer, we
--
1.8.1.2

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