Commit 2b7220f9 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] tty oops fix

Ancient bug, reported by Hiroshi Inoue <inoueh@uranus.dti.ne.jp>:

 1. login to tty2 (not tty1)
 2. start kon (Kanji cONsole emulator, console which support
    Japanese characters)
 3. exit kon
 4. logout

It oopses in the debugging function check_tty_count(), walking a list_head
which has been list_del()'d.   Call trace is:

#0  check_tty_count (tty=0x10d42000, routine=0xc817b00 ".paths") at include/asm/processor.h:583
#1  0x022c6c00 in do_tty_hangup (data=0x10d42000) at drivers/char/tty_io.c:426
#2  0x022c6f60 in tty_vhangup (tty=0xc817b00) at drivers/char/tty_io.c:536
#3  0x022c6fcc in disassociate_ctty (on_exit=1) at drivers/char/tty_io.c:574
#4  0x02127aee in do_exit (code=0) at kernel/exit.c:718
#5  0x02127caa in do_group_exit (exit_code=0) at kernel/exit.c:796
#6  0x02127cbc in sys_exit_group (error_code=0) at kernel/exit.c:807

The tty refcount is zero, so everything seems consistent and sensible.  The
fix just uses list_del_init() on that list_head.


Heaven knows what the locking for tty->count is though.  Some bizarre mixture
of BKL, tty_sem and nothing at all.
parent bfcc593b
......@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ static void release_mem(struct tty_struct *tty, int idx)
o_tty->magic = 0;
o_tty->driver->refcount--;
file_list_lock();
list_del(&o_tty->tty_files);
list_del_init(&o_tty->tty_files);
file_list_unlock();
free_tty_struct(o_tty);
}
......@@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ static void release_mem(struct tty_struct *tty, int idx)
tty->magic = 0;
tty->driver->refcount--;
file_list_lock();
list_del(&tty->tty_files);
list_del_init(&tty->tty_files);
file_list_unlock();
module_put(tty->driver->owner);
free_tty_struct(tty);
......
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