From a09efb07b5025fb75f42e903d31767a3cafede89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Slaby Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:43:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Char: vt_ioctl, fix BKL imbalance Stanse found (again) a BKL imbalance in vt_ioctl. It's easily triggerable by ioctl(dev_tty_fd, VT_SETACTIVATE, NULL); Introduced by commit d3b5cffcf84a8bdc7073dce4745d67c72629af85 Author: Alan Cox Date: Sat Sep 19 13:13:26 2009 -0700 vt: add an activate and lock Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c index 29c651ab0d78..6b36ee56e6fe 100644 --- a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c @@ -981,8 +981,10 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file, goto eperm; if (copy_from_user(&vsa, (struct vt_setactivate __user *)arg, - sizeof(struct vt_setactivate))) - return -EFAULT; + sizeof(struct vt_setactivate))) { + ret = -EFAULT; + goto out; + } if (vsa.console == 0 || vsa.console > MAX_NR_CONSOLES) ret = -ENXIO; else { -- 2.34.1