Commit 8792f961 authored by Samuel Ortiz's avatar Samuel Ortiz Committed by Linus Torvalds
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VT ioctl race fix



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: default avatarSamuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAntonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 4047727e
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