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vt_ioctl: fix lock imbalance

Don't return from switch/case directly in vt_ioctl. Set ret and break
instead so that we unlock BKL.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jiri Slaby 16 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 2 1
      drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c

+ 2 - 1
drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c

@@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file,
 	kbd = kbd_table + console;
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case TIOCLINUX:
-		return tioclinux(tty, arg);
+		ret = tioclinux(tty, arg);
+		break;
 	case KIOCSOUND:
 		if (!perm)
 			goto eperm;