Commit 79d75320 authored by Dan Carpenter's avatar Dan Carpenter Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 157a4b31
......@@ -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 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
devpts_kill_index(inode, index);
err_file:
mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);
tty_free_file(filp);
return retval;
}
......
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