On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 08:52:59PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote:
> This applies on top of the changes already in staging-next branch which allow
> kernel access to TTY dev.
>
> Signe-doff-by: Okash Khawaja <okash.khaw...@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org>
>
> Index: linux-staging/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-staging.orig/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> +++ linux-staging/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> @@ -1369,7 +1369,10 @@ static struct tty_struct *tty_driver_loo
> struct tty_struct *tty;
>
> if (driver->ops->lookup)
> - tty = driver->ops->lookup(driver, file, idx);
> + if (!file)
> + tty = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
> + else
> + tty = driver->ops->lookup(driver, file, idx);
Why make this change? Shouldn't the lookup function allow a NULL file
pointer? Or is the problem that they do not?
> else
> tty = driver->ttys[idx];
>
> @@ -2001,7 +2004,7 @@ static struct tty_driver *tty_lookup_dri
> struct tty_driver *console_driver = console_device(index);
> if (console_driver) {
> driver = tty_driver_kref_get(console_driver);
> - if (driver) {
> + if (driver && filp) {
Why change this too?
Your changelog does not explain any of this, please do so.
thanks,
greg k-h
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