Commit a115902f authored Jun 22, 2009 by Jiri Slaby Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 22, 2009

vt_ioctl: fix lock imbalance



Don't return from switch/case directly in vt_ioctl. Set ret and break
instead so that we unlock BKL.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 69ae59d7

drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct tty, struct file file,
		kbd = kbd_table + console;
		switch (cmd) {
		case TIOCLINUX:
		return tioclinux(tty, arg);
		ret = tioclinux(tty, arg);
		break;
		case KIOCSOUND:
		if (!perm)
		goto eperm;