Re: [PATCH] vt: Grab console_lock around con_is_bound in show_bind

From: Jens Remus
Date: Thu Jul 18 2019 - 08:04:27 EST


Am 18.07.2019 um 10:09 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
Not really harmful not to, but also not harm in grabbing the lock. And
this shuts up a new WARNING I introduced in commit ddde3c18b700 ("vt:
More locking checks").

Reported-by: Jens Remus <jremus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Hostettler <textshell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thank you for the quick fix! Looks fine to me. Did test with cat as well as our dump2tar utility. The warning is gone.

Tested-by: Jens Remus <jremus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Jens Remus
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