From d3ca8b64b97ef4dc54d7bb0b88bbc01a1fca8cb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Cox Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 13:45:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] pty: Fix lock inversion The ptmx_open path takes the tty and devpts locks in the wrong order because tty_init_dev locks and returns a locked tty. As far as I can tell this is actually safe anyway because the tty being returned is new so nobody can get a reference to lock it at this point. However we don't even need the devpts lock at this point, it's only held as a byproduct of the way the locks were pushe down. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed