We need to nest the console lock in sel_lock, so we have to push it down a bit. Fortunately, the callers of set_selection_* just lock the console lock around the function call. So moving it down is easy. In the next patch, we switch the order. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c | 2 -- drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 13 ++++++++++++- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 -- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c index a8b4d0c5ab7e..032f3264fba1 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c @@ -51,9 +51,7 @@ static void __speakup_set_selection(struct work_struct *work) goto unref; } - console_lock(); set_selection_kernel(&sel, tty); - console_unlock(); unref: tty_kref_put(tty); diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c index 714992693974..5b0b897396eb 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ int set_selection_user(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel, return set_selection_kernel(&v, tty); } -int set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty) +static int __set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty) { struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[fg_console].d; int new_sel_start, new_sel_end, spc; @@ -348,6 +348,17 @@ int set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty) mutex_unlock(&sel_lock); return ret; } + +int set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty) +{ + int ret; + + console_lock(); + ret = __set_selection_kernel(v, tty); + console_unlock(); + + return ret; +} EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_selection_kernel); /* Insert the contents of the selection buffer into the diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 8fa059ec6cc8..c4d75edde923 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -3047,10 +3047,8 @@ int tioclinux(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg) switch (type) { case TIOCL_SETSEL: - console_lock(); ret = set_selection_user((struct tiocl_selection __user *)(p+1), tty); - console_unlock(); break; case TIOCL_PASTESEL: ret = paste_selection(tty); -- 2.25.1