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authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>2012-05-01 16:12:19 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-05-01 14:01:28 -0400
commit84f904ecd3aa2ccb5779b815b69c1cb592f07bb5 (patch)
treeeeaf995be900b9a1beb2be751224a97cfadf422d /drivers/tty
parent69964ea4c7b68c9399f7977aa5b9aa6539a6a98a (diff)
vt: Fix deadlock on scroll-lock
Fixing the locking accidentally replaced a race in the scroll lock handling with a deadlock. Turn it back into a race for now. The basic problem is that there are two paths into the tty stop/start helpers. One via the tty layer ^S/^Q handling where we need to take the kbd_event_lock and one via the special keyboard handler for fn_hold where we already hold it. Probably we need to split out into a separate LED lock but for now just go back to the race as it's a bit close to release. Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c26
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
index 86dd1e302bb..29ca20dbd33 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
@@ -1085,15 +1085,21 @@ void vt_set_led_state(int console, int leds)
*
* Handle console start. This is a wrapper for the VT layer
* so that we can keep kbd knowledge internal
+ *
+ * FIXME: We eventually need to hold the kbd lock here to protect
+ * the LED updating. We can't do it yet because fn_hold calls stop_tty
+ * and start_tty under the kbd_event_lock, while normal tty paths
+ * don't hold the lock. We probably need to split out an LED lock
+ * but not during an -rc release!
*/
void vt_kbd_con_start(int console)
{
struct kbd_struct * kbd = kbd_table + console;
- unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&kbd_event_lock, flags);
+/* unsigned long flags; */
+/* spin_lock_irqsave(&kbd_event_lock, flags); */
clr_vc_kbd_led(kbd, VC_SCROLLOCK);
set_leds();
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kbd_event_lock, flags);
+/* spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kbd_event_lock, flags); */
}
/**
@@ -1102,22 +1108,28 @@ void vt_kbd_con_start(int console)
*
* Handle console stop. This is a wrapper for the VT layer
* so that we can keep kbd knowledge internal
+ *
+ * FIXME: We eventually need to hold the kbd lock here to protect
+ * the LED updating. We can't do it yet because fn_hold calls stop_tty
+ * and start_tty under the kbd_event_lock, while normal tty paths
+ * don't hold the lock. We probably need to split out an LED lock
+ * but not during an -rc release!
*/
void vt_kbd_con_stop(int console)
{
struct kbd_struct * kbd = kbd_table + console;
- unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&kbd_event_lock, flags);
+/* unsigned long flags; */
+/* spin_lock_irqsave(&kbd_event_lock, flags); */
set_vc_kbd_led(kbd, VC_SCROLLOCK);
set_leds();
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kbd_event_lock, flags);
+/* spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kbd_event_lock, flags); */
}
/*
* This is the tasklet that updates LED state on all keyboards
* attached to the box. The reason we use tasklet is that we
* need to handle the scenario when keyboard handler is not
- * registered yet but we already getting updates form VT to
+ * registered yet but we already getting updates from the VT to
* update led state.
*/
static void kbd_bh(unsigned long dummy)