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tty: double unlock on error in ptmx_open()

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 <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Dan Carpenter 13 years ago
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1 changed files with 1 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 1 3
      drivers/tty/pty.c

+ 1 - 3
drivers/tty/pty.c

@@ -618,13 +618,12 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	/* 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);
 
@@ -659,7 +658,6 @@ out:
 	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 	devpts_kill_index(inode, index);
 err_file:
-        mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);
 	tty_free_file(filp);
 	return retval;
 }