VT ioctl race fix
When calling the RELDISP VT ioctl, we are reading vt_newvt while the console workqueue could be messing with it (through change_console()). We fix this race by taking the console semaphore before reading vt_newvt. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com> Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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