tty: Redo current tty locking

Currently it is sometimes locked by the tty mutex and sometimes by the
sighand lock. The latter is in fact correct and now we can hand back referenced
objects we can fix this up without problems around sleeping functions.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index b5f57d0..f40298e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -739,13 +739,11 @@ void tty_vhangup_self(void)
 {
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
 
-	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
 	tty = get_current_tty();
 	if (tty) {
 		tty_vhangup(tty);
 		tty_kref_put(tty);
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -801,11 +799,9 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
 	struct pid *tty_pgrp = NULL;
 
 
-	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
 	tty = get_current_tty();
 	if (tty) {
 		tty_pgrp = get_pid(tty->pgrp);
-		mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 		lock_kernel();
 		if (on_exit && tty->driver->type != TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY)
 			tty_vhangup(tty);
@@ -822,7 +818,6 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
 			kill_pgrp(old_pgrp, SIGCONT, on_exit);
 			put_pid(old_pgrp);
 		}
-		mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 		return;
 	}
 	if (tty_pgrp) {
@@ -837,7 +832,6 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
 	current->signal->tty_old_pgrp = NULL;
 	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 
-	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
 	tty = get_current_tty();
 	if (tty) {
 		unsigned long flags;
@@ -854,7 +848,6 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
 		       " = NULL", tty);
 #endif
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 
 	/* Now clear signal->tty under the lock */
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
@@ -3180,14 +3173,11 @@ static void proc_set_tty(struct task_struct *tsk, struct tty_struct *tty)
 struct tty_struct *get_current_tty(void)
 {
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&tty_mutex));
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&current->sighand->siglock, flags);
 	tty = tty_kref_get(current->signal->tty);
-	/*
-	 * session->tty can be changed/cleared from under us, make sure we
-	 * issue the load. The obtained pointer, when not NULL, is valid as
-	 * long as we hold tty_mutex.
-	 */
-	barrier();
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->sighand->siglock, flags);
 	return tty;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_current_tty);