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tty: Wait interruptibly for tty lock on reopen
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Allow a signal to interrupt the wait for a tty reopen; eg., if
the tty has starting final close and is waiting for the device to
drain.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.4
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Peter Hurley authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jan 27, 2016
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion drivers/tty/tty_io.c
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Expand Up @@ -2065,7 +2065,12 @@ static int tty_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)

if (tty) {
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
tty_lock(tty);
retval = tty_lock_interruptible(tty);
if (retval) {
if (retval == -EINTR)
retval = -ERESTARTSYS;
goto err_unref;
}
/* safe to drop the kref from tty_driver_lookup_tty() */
tty_kref_put(tty);
retval = tty_reopen(tty);
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return 0;
err_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
err_unref:
/* after locks to avoid deadlock */
if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(driver))
tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ void __lockfunc tty_lock(struct tty_struct *tty)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_lock);

int tty_lock_interruptible(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
if (WARN(tty->magic != TTY_MAGIC, "L Bad %p\n", tty))
return -EIO;
tty_kref_get(tty);
return mutex_lock_interruptible(&tty->legacy_mutex);
}

void __lockfunc tty_unlock(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
if (WARN(tty->magic != TTY_MAGIC, "U Bad %p\n", tty))
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/tty.h
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Expand Up @@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ extern long vt_compat_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty,
/* tty_mutex.c */
/* functions for preparation of BKL removal */
extern void __lockfunc tty_lock(struct tty_struct *tty);
extern int tty_lock_interruptible(struct tty_struct *tty);
extern void __lockfunc tty_unlock(struct tty_struct *tty);
extern void __lockfunc tty_lock_slave(struct tty_struct *tty);
extern void __lockfunc tty_unlock_slave(struct tty_struct *tty);
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