Stanse found (again) a BKL imbalance in vt_ioctl. It's easily triggerable by ioctl(dev_tty_fd, VT_SETACTIVATE, NULL); Introduced by commit d3b5cffcf84a8bdc7073dce4745d67c72629af85 Author: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Date: Sat Sep 19 13:13:26 2009 -0700 vt: add an activate and lock Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
@@ -981,8 +981,10 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file,
goto eperm;
if (copy_from_user(&vsa, (struct vt_setactivate __user *)arg,
- sizeof(struct vt_setactivate)))
- return -EFAULT;
+ sizeof(struct vt_setactivate))) {
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
+ }
if (vsa.console == 0 || vsa.console > MAX_NR_CONSOLES)
ret = -ENXIO;
else {