From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 08:08:42 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: vt: fix race in vt_waitactive()
X-Git-Tag: omap-cleanup-sparseirq-for-v3.7~178
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2fc46915ecfbc51afcf995901f6ade7c3d503a25;p=pandora-kernel.git

vt: fix race in vt_waitactive()

pm_restore_console() is called from the suspend/resume path, and this
calls vt_move_to_console(), which calls vt_waitactive().

There's a race in this path which causes the process which requests the
suspend to sleep indefinitely waiting for an event which already
happened:

P1                                      P2
 vt_move_to_console()
  set_console()
    schedule_console_callback()
  vt_waitactive()
    check n == fg_console +1
                                       console_callback()
                                         switch_screen()
                                         vt_event_post() // no waiters

    vt_event_wait() // forever

Fix the race by ensuring we're registered for the event before we check
if it's already completed.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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