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authorJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>2009-06-22 18:42:18 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-07-02 16:50:22 -0700
commit024820f5cb728224cff58085f0e07105502267b5 (patch)
treee01a970c153e677ed80a76c79b3e1cc5b98af943
parentd1ad6a3b00b1580b8dbdedddbd0d1d65411c65f8 (diff)
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vt_ioctl: fix lock imbalance
commit a115902f67ef51fbbe83e214fb761aaa9734c1ce upstream. Don't return from switch/case directly in vt_ioctl. Set ret and break instead so that we unlock BKL. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
index e6ce632a393e..7539bed0f7e0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
@@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ 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;