From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:07:19 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: tty: fix race in tty_fasync
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc5~4^2
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=703625118069f9f8960d356676662d3db5a9d116;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

tty: fix race in tty_fasync

We need to keep the lock held over the call to __f_setown() to
prevent a PID race.

Thanks to Al Viro for pointing out the problem, and to Travis for
making us look here in the first place.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index f15df40bc31..c6f3b48be9d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -1951,8 +1951,8 @@ static int tty_fasync(int fd, struct file *filp, int on)
 			pid = task_pid(current);
 			type = PIDTYPE_PID;
 		}
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
 		retval = __f_setown(filp, pid, type, 0);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
 		if (retval)
 			goto out;
 	} else {