From 487ad7efbf6b0ec338cdfc2a7b0fbeb53f17a94c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:11:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tty: fix BKL related leak and crash Enabling the BKL to be lockdep tracked uncovered the following upstream kernel bug in the tty code, which caused a BKL reference leak: ================================================ [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] ------------------------------------------------ dmesg/3121 is leaving the kernel with locks still held! 1 lock held by dmesg/3121: #0: (kernel_mutex){--..}, at: [] opost+0x24/0x194 this might explain some of the atomicity warnings and crashes that -tip tree testing has been experiencing since the BKL was converted back to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed