VT ioctl race fix
authorSamuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 08:20:12 +0000 (01:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:52:23 +0000 (07:52 -0700)
When calling the RELDISP VT ioctl, we are reading vt_newvt while the
console workqueue could be messing with it (through change_console()).  We
fix this race by taking the console semaphore before reading vt_newvt.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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