From 0eae4686a128d87503863a261e84887750c8bc68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:47:40 +0100
Subject: Revert "tty: pty: Fix race condition between release_one_tty and
pty_write"
This reverts commit b9ca5f8560af244489b4a1bc1ae88b341f24bc95 as 0-day
shows it has a circular locking dependency.
Fixes: b9ca5f8560af ("tty: pty: Fix race condition between release_one_tty and pty_write")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Sahara <keun-o.park@darkmatter.ae>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
(limited to 'drivers/tty/tty_io.c')
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index c27777f3b8c4..5fa250157025 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1448,13 +1448,10 @@ static void release_one_tty(struct work_struct *work)
struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;
struct module *owner = driver->owner;
- mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
if (tty->ops->cleanup)
tty->ops->cleanup(tty);
tty->magic = 0;
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
-
tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
module_put(owner);
--
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