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authorAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>2008-04-30 00:53:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-30 08:29:41 -0700
commit0ee9cbb3c705903db9c258047d9ce87096e6a1a1 (patch)
treeba3b3a4b85ef19cf8c4e3019e813603a160bb039 /drivers/char
parent5d0fdf1e01899805b6c2c0b789a707dcb731b1ea (diff)
tty_ioctl: locking for tty_wait_until_sent
This function still depends on the big kernel lock in some cases. Push locking into the function ready for removal of the BKL from ioctl call paths. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
index d6353d89b45..851cfcd2702 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -61,11 +62,13 @@ void tty_wait_until_sent(struct tty_struct *tty, long timeout)
return;
if (!timeout)
timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
+ lock_kernel();
if (wait_event_interruptible_timeout(tty->write_wait,
- !tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(tty), timeout) < 0)
- return;
- if (tty->driver->wait_until_sent)
- tty->driver->wait_until_sent(tty, timeout);
+ !tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(tty), timeout) >= 0) {
+ if (tty->driver->wait_until_sent)
+ tty->driver->wait_until_sent(tty, timeout);
+ }
+ unlock_kernel();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_wait_until_sent);