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authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2020-02-28 14:54:05 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-02-28 18:06:49 +0300
commit4b70dd57a15d2f4685ac6e38056bad93e81e982f (patch)
tree99092eb75291a1ebc0f01c69fc4dac5d73cb8645 /drivers/tty
parentf8788d86ab28f61f7b46eb6be375f8a726783636 (diff)
downloadlinux-4b70dd57a15d2f4685ac6e38056bad93e81e982f.tar.xz
vt: selection, push console lock down
We need to nest the console lock in sel_lock, so we have to push it down a bit. Fortunately, the callers of set_selection_* just lock the console lock around the function call. So moving it down is easy. In the next patch, we switch the order. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Fixes: 07e6124a1a46 ("vt: selection, close sel_buffer race") Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200228115406.5735-1-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/selection.c13
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/vt.c2
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
index 0c50d7410b31..9126a01290ea 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ int set_selection_user(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel,
return set_selection_kernel(&v, tty);
}
-int set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty)
+static int __set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty)
{
struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[fg_console].d;
int new_sel_start, new_sel_end, spc;
@@ -343,6 +343,17 @@ unlock:
mutex_unlock(&sel_lock);
return ret;
}
+
+int set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ console_lock();
+ ret = __set_selection_kernel(v, tty);
+ console_unlock();
+
+ return ret;
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_selection_kernel);
/* Insert the contents of the selection buffer into the
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 0cfbb7182b5a..15d27698054a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -3046,10 +3046,8 @@ int tioclinux(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg)
switch (type)
{
case TIOCL_SETSEL:
- console_lock();
ret = set_selection_user((struct tiocl_selection
__user *)(p+1), tty);
- console_unlock();
break;
case TIOCL_PASTESEL:
ret = paste_selection(tty);