[RESEND][PATCH 05/15] tty: audit: Take siglock directly

lock_task_sighand() is for situations where the struct task_struct* may disappear while trying to deref the sighand; this never applies to 'current'. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter(a)hurleysoftware.com&gt; --- drivers/tty/tty_audit.c | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_audit.c b/drivers/tty/tty_audit.c index 9effa81..5f65653 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_audit.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_audit.c @@ -180,22 +180,19 @@ void tty_audit_tiocsti(struct tty_struct *tty, char ch) int tty_audit_push_current(void) { struct tty_audit_buf *buf = ERR_PTR(-EPERM); - struct task_struct *tsk = current; unsigned long flags; - if (!lock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags)) - return -ESRCH; - - if (tsk->signal->audit_tty) { - buf = tsk->signal->tty_audit_buf; + spin_lock_irqsave(&current->sighand->siglock, flags); + if (current->signal->audit_tty) { + buf = current->signal->tty_audit_buf; if (buf) atomic_inc(&buf->count); } - unlock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->sighand->siglock, flags); /* * Return 0 when signal->audit_tty set - * but tsk->signal->tty_audit_buf == NULL. + * but current->signal->tty_audit_buf == NULL. */ if (!buf || IS_ERR(buf)) return PTR_ERR(buf); -- 2.7.0