Skip to content
Commit 7f22f6c9 authored by Peter Hurley's avatar Peter Hurley Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
Browse files

tty: Retry failed reopen if tty teardown in-progress



A small window exists where a tty reopen will observe the tty
just prior to imminent teardown (tty->count == 0); in this case, open()
returns EIO to userspace.

Instead, retry the open after checking for signals and yielding;
this interruptible retry loop allows teardown to commence and initialize
a new tty on retry. Never retry the BSD master pty reopen; there is no
guarantee the pty pair teardown is imminent since the slave file
descriptors may remain open indefinitely.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.4
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0bfd464d
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment