The problem here is that we called mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex) on the
error path when we weren't holding the lock.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
/* find a device that is not in use. */
mutex_lock(&devpts_mutex);
index = devpts_new_index(inode);
+ mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);
if (index < 0) {
retval = index;
goto err_file;
}
- mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);
-
mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
tty = tty_init_dev(ptm_driver, index);
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
devpts_kill_index(inode, index);
err_file:
- mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);
tty_free_file(filp);
return retval;
}