[PATCH] console close race fix

[PATCH] console close race fix

[Robert Love]

Marcelo,

The attached is a fix originally by Andrew Morton and discovered by the
preempt-kernel patch.  It is in Alan's tree but was never merged into
Linus's.

There is a race between con_close and con_flush_chars. 
n_tty_receive_buf writes to the tty queue and then flushes it via
con_flush_chars.  If the console closes in between these operations,
con_flush_char barfs.

Please, for all that is righteous, apply.

	Robert Love

diff -urN linux-2.4.17-pre7/drivers/char/console.c linux/drivers/char/console.c
--- linux-2.4.17-pre6/drivers/char/console.c	Thu Dec  6 14:08:14 2001
+++ linux/drivers/char/console.c	Thu Dec  6 14:09:06 2001
@@ -2356,8 +2356,14 @@
 		return;
 
 	pm_access(pm_con);
+	
+	/*
+	 * If we raced with con_close(), `vt' may be null.
+	 * Hence this bandaid.   - akpm
+	 */
 	acquire_console_sem();
-	set_cursor(vt->vc_num);
+	if (vt)
+		set_cursor(vt->vc_num);
 	release_console_sem();
 }