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tty: fix console_sem lock order 

vgacon_do_font_op releases and reacquires the BTM while holding
console_sem. This violates the rule that BTM has to be the
outer lock whenever we hold both.

There does not seem to be any reason to give up the BTM here,
so just stop doing that.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Arnd Bergmann 2010-06-01 22:53:03 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 64ba3dc314
commit 83ceb67d7d
1 changed files with 0 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
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@ -1108,7 +1108,6 @@ static int vgacon_do_font_op(struct vgastate *state,char *arg,int set,int ch512)
charmap += 4 * cmapsz;
#endif
tty_unlock();
spin_lock_irq(&vga_lock);
/* First, the Sequencer */
vga_wseq(state->vgabase, VGA_SEQ_RESET, 0x1);
@ -1192,7 +1191,6 @@ static int vgacon_do_font_op(struct vgastate *state,char *arg,int set,int ch512)
vga_wattr(state->vgabase, VGA_AR_ENABLE_DISPLAY, 0);
}
spin_unlock_irq(&vga_lock);
tty_lock();
return 0;
}