Additions and removal from tty_drivers list were just done as well as iterating on it for /proc/tty/drivers generation.
testing: modprobe/rmmod loop of simple module which does nothing but tty_register_driver() vs cat /proc/tty/drivers loop BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b printing eip: c01cefa7 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT last sysfs file: devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-0:1.0/bInterfaceProtocol Modules linked in: ohci_hcd af_packet e1000 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore xfs CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01cefa7>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010297 (2.6.21-rc4-mm1 #4) EIP is at vsnprintf+0x3a4/0x5fc eax: 6b6b6b6b ebx: f6cb50f2 ecx: 6b6b6b6b edx: fffffffe esi: c0354700 edi: f6cb6000 ebp: 6b6b6b6b esp: f31f5e68 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 Process cat (pid: 31864, ti=f31f4000 task=c1998030 task.ti=f31f4000) Stack: 00000000 c0103f20 c013003a c0103f20 00000000 f6cb50da 0000000a 00000f0e f6cb50f2 00000010 00000014 ffffffff ffffffff 00000007 c0354753 f6cb50f2 f73e39dc f73e39dc 00000001 c0175416 f31f5ed8 f31f5ed4 0ee00000 f32090bc Call Trace: [<c0103f20>] restore_nocheck+0x12/0x15 [<c013003a>] mark_held_locks+0x6d/0x86 [<c0103f20>] restore_nocheck+0x12/0x15 [<c0175416>] seq_printf+0x2e/0x52 [<c0192895>] show_tty_range+0x35/0x1f3 [<c0175416>] seq_printf+0x2e/0x52 [<c0192add>] show_tty_driver+0x8a/0x1d9 [<c01758f6>] seq_read+0x70/0x2ba [<c0175886>] seq_read+0x0/0x2ba [<c018d8e6>] proc_reg_read+0x63/0x9f [<c015e764>] vfs_read+0x7d/0xb5 [<c018d883>] proc_reg_read+0x0/0x9f [<c015eab1>] sys_read+0x41/0x6a [<c0103e4e>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99 ======================= Code: 00 8b 4d 04 e9 44 ff ff ff 8d 4d 04 89 4c 24 50 8b 6d 00 81 fd ff 0f 00 00 b8 a4 c1 35 c0 0f 46 e8 8b 54 24 2c 89 e9 89 c8 eb 06 <80> 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 89 c6 8b 44 24 28 89 EIP: [<c01cefa7>] vsnprintf+0x3a4/0x5fc SS:ESP 0068:f31f5e68 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/char/tty_io.c | 9 ++++++++- fs/proc/proc_tty.c | 3 +++ include/linux/tty_driver.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_std_termios); into this file */ LIST_HEAD(tty_drivers); /* linked list of tty drivers */ +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tty_drivers_lock); /* Mutex to protect creating and releasing a tty. This is shared with vt.c for deeply disgusting hack reasons */ @@ -1086,13 +1087,16 @@ static struct tty_driver *get_tty_driver { struct tty_driver *p; + spin_lock(&tty_drivers_lock); list_for_each_entry(p, &tty_drivers, tty_drivers) { dev_t base = MKDEV(p->major, p->minor_start); if (device < base || device >= base + p->num) continue; + spin_unlock(&tty_drivers_lock); *index = device - base; return p; } + spin_unlock(&tty_drivers_lock); return NULL; } @@ -3767,7 +3771,9 @@ int tty_register_driver(struct tty_drive if (!driver->put_char) driver->put_char = tty_default_put_char; + spin_lock(&tty_drivers_lock); list_add(&driver->tty_drivers, &tty_drivers); + spin_unlock(&tty_drivers_lock); if ( !(driver->flags & TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV) ) { for(i = 0; i < driver->num; i++) @@ -3793,8 +3799,9 @@ int tty_unregister_driver(struct tty_dri unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(driver->major, driver->minor_start), driver->num); - + spin_lock(&tty_drivers_lock); list_del(&driver->tty_drivers); + spin_unlock(&tty_drivers_lock); /* * Free the termios and termios_locked structures because --- a/fs/proc/proc_tty.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_tty.c @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ static void *t_start(struct seq_file *m, { struct list_head *p; loff_t l = *pos; + + spin_lock(&tty_drivers_lock); list_for_each(p, &tty_drivers) if (!l--) return list_entry(p, struct tty_driver, tty_drivers); @@ -124,6 +126,7 @@ static void *t_next(struct seq_file *m, static void t_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *v) { + spin_unlock(&tty_drivers_lock); } static struct seq_operations tty_drivers_op = { --- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h +++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ #define _LINUX_TTY_DRIVER_H #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/cdev.h> +#include <linux/spinlock.h> struct tty_struct; @@ -216,6 +217,7 @@ struct tty_driver { }; extern struct list_head tty_drivers; +extern spinlock_t tty_drivers_lock; struct tty_driver *alloc_tty_driver(int lines); void put_tty_driver(struct tty_driver *driver); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/