tty: the vhangup syscall is racy

We now have the infrastructure to sort this out but rather than teaching
the syscall tty lock rules we move the hard work into a tty helper
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/char/tty_io.c

@@ -729,6 +729,25 @@ void tty_vhangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_vhangup);
 
+/**
+ *	tty_vhangup_self	-	process vhangup for own ctty
+ *
+ *	Perform a vhangup on the current controlling tty
+ */
+
+void tty_vhangup_self(void)
+{
+	struct tty_struct *tty;
+
+	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
+	tty = get_current_tty();
+	if (tty) {
+		tty_vhangup(tty);
+		tty_kref_put(tty);
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+}
+
 /**
  *	tty_hung_up_p		-	was tty hung up
  *	@filp: file pointer of tty

fs/open.c

@@ -1141,8 +1141,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_close);
 asmlinkage long sys_vhangup(void)
 {
 	if (capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG)) {
-		/* XXX: this needs locking */
-		tty_vhangup(current->signal->tty);
+		tty_vhangup_self();
 		return 0;
 	}
 	return -EPERM;

include/linux/tty.h

@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ extern int is_ignored(int sig);
 extern int tty_signal(int sig, struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void tty_vhangup(struct tty_struct *tty);
+extern void tty_vhangup_self(void);
 extern void tty_unhangup(struct file *filp);
 extern int tty_hung_up_p(struct file *filp);
 extern void do_SAK(struct tty_struct *tty);