Re: [PATCH] tty/vt: Return EBUSY if deallocating VT1 and it is busy

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Sun Jun 16 2013 - 13:38:14 EST


Ross Lagerwall writes:
> Commit 421b40a6286e ("tty/vt: Fix vc_deallocate() lock order") changed
> the behavior when deallocating VT 1. Previously if trying to
> deallocate VT1 and it is busy, we would return EBUSY. The commit
> changed this to return 0 (success).
>
> This commit restores the old behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@xxxxxxxxx>

This solves the VT blanking regression I've seen with the 3.10-rc
kernels.

Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
> On 06/14/2013 05:35 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > p.s. In the future, please cc: the people who handled the patch you are
> > asking about, otherwise stuff like this often gets missed in the noise
> > of lkml.
>
> Yes, sorry about that. I only remembered after I sent the email.
>
> drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
> index fc2c06c..2bd78e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
> @@ -289,13 +289,10 @@ static int vt_disallocate(unsigned int vc_num)
> struct vc_data *vc = NULL;
> int ret = 0;
>
> - if (!vc_num)
> - return 0;
> -
> console_lock();
> if (VT_BUSY(vc_num))
> ret = -EBUSY;
> - else
> + else if (vc_num)
> vc = vc_deallocate(vc_num);
> console_unlock();
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
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