Re: tty: tty_open can return to userspace holding tty_mutex

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:02:40 -0500
Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> __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.

Well spotted, and will go fix now. I think your fsfuzzer created a device
node for an out of range tty subdevice
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