[PATCH -next v2 05/26] tty: Check tty->count instead of TTY_CLOSING in tty_reopen()

From: Peter Hurley
Date: Wed Nov 05 2014 - 12:22:53 EST


Although perhaps not obvious, the TTY_CLOSING bit is set when the
tty count has been decremented to 0 (which occurs while holding
tty_lock). The only other case when tty count is 0 during a re-open
is when a legacy BSD pty master has been opened in parallel but
after the pty slave, which is unsupported and returns an error.

Thus !tty->count contains the complete set of degenerate conditions
under which a tty open fails.

Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 6dc3fa0..97445c2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;

- if (test_bit(TTY_CLOSING, &tty->flags))
+ if (!tty->count)
return -EIO;

if (driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY &&
--
2.1.3

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