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| author | Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> | 2012-07-11 09:40:40 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-07-12 14:27:08 -0700 |
| commit | 79d753209245de3d6f02480535a8f5cf21ad02f7 (patch) | |
| tree | c2aa38c82c6b067e7ca9ae7d40abbc81f51ce124 /drivers/tty/pty.c | |
| parent | 157a4b311c45c9aba75a990464d9680867dc8805 (diff) | |
tty: double unlock on error in ptmx_open()
The problem here is that we called mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex) on the
error path when we weren't holding the lock.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/pty.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/pty.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/pty.c b/drivers/tty/pty.c index d8558834ce5..a0ca0830cbc 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/pty.c +++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c @@ -618,13 +618,12 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) /* find a device that is not in use. */ mutex_lock(&devpts_mutex); index = devpts_new_index(inode); + mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex); if (index < 0) { retval = index; goto err_file; } - mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex); - mutex_lock(&tty_mutex); tty = tty_init_dev(ptm_driver, index); @@ -659,7 +658,6 @@ out: mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex); devpts_kill_index(inode, index); err_file: - mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex); tty_free_file(filp); return retval; } |