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tty: fix sanity check

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The WARN_ON() that was added to tty_reopen can be triggered in the specific
case of a hangup occurring during a re-open of a tty which is not in the
middle of being otherwise closed.

In that case however the WARN() is bogus as we don't hold the neccessary
locks to make a correct decision.

The case we should be checking is "if the ldisc is not changing and reopen
is occuring". We could drop the WARN_ON but for the moment the debug is more
valuable even if it means taking a mutex as it will find any other cases.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alan Cox 2009-06-16 17:01:33 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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drivers/char/tty_io.c
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@ -1263,7 +1263,9 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty)
tty->count++;
tty->driver = driver; /* N.B. why do this every time?? */
mutex_lock(&tty->ldisc_mutex);
WARN_ON(!test_bit(TTY_LDISC, &tty->flags));
mutex_unlock(&tty->ldisc_mutex);
return 0;
}