kill-the-BKL/vt: Prevent holding the BKL on return to userspace

[Henne]

From: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

kill-the-BKL/vt: Prevent holding the BKL on return to userspace

Returning from a function which holds the BLK isn't a good idea,
so we won't let it return from this point.
Instead we set the return variable and let the function return the
normal way without BKL held.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
This patch is only for the kill-the-BKL branch.

diff --git a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
index 181ff38..b3da7b3 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
@@ -396,7 +396,9 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file,
	kbd = kbd_table + console;
	switch (cmd) {
	case TIOCLINUX:
-		return tioclinux(tty, arg);
+		ret = tioclinux(tty, arg);
+		break;
+
	case KIOCSOUND:
		if (!perm)
			goto eperm;


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