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> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index ec92f36ab5c4..34aa39d1aed9 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -3771,7 +3771,11 @@ static ssize_t show_bind(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) { struct con_driver *con = dev_get_drvdata(dev); - int bind = con_is_bound(con->con); + int bind; + + console_lock(); + bind = con_is_bound(con->con); + console_unlock(); return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%i\n", bind); } -- 2.20.1