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authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>2010-06-02 00:52:54 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-11 00:47:41 +0400
commite33ac1c10b6baaac68d18d931e120d8b96e8c5f8 (patch)
treee39049f7e17546c3ad9dd90d739b6259826330d2 /drivers/char/selection.c
parentd87d9b7d19f04b16c4406d3c0feeca10090e0ada (diff)
downloadlinux-e33ac1c10b6baaac68d18d931e120d8b96e8c5f8.tar.xz
vc: Locking clean up
The virtual console layer uses the BKL for various things that don't really need it. Clean them out. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/selection.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/selection.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/selection.c b/drivers/char/selection.c
index f97b9e848064..6e79340d732f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/selection.c
+++ b/drivers/char/selection.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/selection.h>
#include <linux/tiocl.h>
#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
/* Don't take this from <ctype.h>: 011-015 on the screen aren't spaces */
#define isspace(c) ((c) == ' ')
@@ -312,6 +313,8 @@ int paste_selection(struct tty_struct *tty)
struct tty_ldisc *ld;
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
+ lock_kernel();
+
acquire_console_sem();
poke_blanked_console();
release_console_sem();
@@ -335,5 +338,6 @@ int paste_selection(struct tty_struct *tty)
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
+ unlock_kernel();
return 0;
}