commit 7bcfa95e561f11a17720162935e4f704c5d6fda3
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Fri Dec 08 02:36:07 2006 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> Fri Dec 08 08:28:38 2006 -0800
tree 3386b5d140064ffd6fa77cc7d900bc690f7ad3a8
parent 915935041281c64589e2b7fe38437be22567fb6f

[PATCH] do_acct_process(): don't take tty_mutex

No need to take the global tty_mutex, signal->tty->driver can't go away while
we are holding ->siglock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/acct.c

diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index ca56190..69a40c9 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -485,12 +485,9 @@
 	ac.ac_ppid = current->parent->tgid;
 #endif
 
-	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
-	tty = get_current_tty();
-	ac.ac_tty = tty ? old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(tty)) : 0;
-	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
-
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	tty = current->signal->tty;
+	ac.ac_tty = tty ? old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(tty)) : 0;
 	ac.ac_utime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(cputime_to_jiffies(pacct->ac_utime)));
 	ac.ac_stime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(cputime_to_jiffies(pacct->ac_stime)));
 	ac.ac_flag = pacct->ac_flag;