tty: tty_open can return to userspace holding tty_mutex

From: Eric Paris
Date: Mon Jan 26 2009 - 16:03:00 EST


__tty_open could return (to userspace) holding the tty_mutex thanks to a
regression introduced by 4a2b5fddd53b80efcb3266ee36e23b8de28e761a. This was
found by bisecting an fsfuzzer problem. Admittedly I have no idea how it
managed to tickle this 100% reliably, but it is clearly a regression and
when hit leaves the box in a completely unusable state. This patch lets
the fsfuzzer test complete every time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index d33e5ab..bc84e12 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -1817,8 +1817,10 @@ got_driver:
/* check whether we're reopening an existing tty */
tty = tty_driver_lookup_tty(driver, inode, index);

- if (IS_ERR(tty))
+ if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
return PTR_ERR(tty);
+ }
}

if (tty) {


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