Hi
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Otherwise the loop will never stop since we don't make any
> forward progress. Noticed while breaking this accidentally
> in a painful attempt to make vga_con unregistering work.
>
> With this patch we'll bail out on the first attempt, which
> at least leaves a useful enough system behind for debugging.
> Livelocks on console_lock just aren't fun.
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
We used to return 0 on errors here, which is very backwards to me.. so
your change to use "retval" looks fine to me. This is:
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks
David
> ---
> drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> index 5077fe87324d..3c00dcb3b145 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> @@ -3260,6 +3260,7 @@ static int vt_unbind(struct con_driver *con)
> {
> const struct consw *csw = NULL;
> int i, more = 1, first = -1, last = -1, deflt = 0;
> + int ret;
>
> if (!con->con || !(con->flag & CON_DRIVER_FLAG_MODULE) ||
> con_is_graphics(con->con, con->first, con->last))
> @@ -3285,8 +3286,10 @@ static int vt_unbind(struct con_driver *con)
>
> if (first != -1) {
> console_lock();
> - do_unbind_con_driver(csw, first, last, deflt);
> + ret = do_unbind_con_driver(csw, first, last, deflt);
> console_unlock();
> + if (ret != 0)
> + return ret;
> }
>
> first = -1;
> --
> 1.8.1.4
>
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