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Commit a64314e6 authored by Jan Lübbe's avatar Jan Lübbe Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fix console change race exposed by CFS



The new behaviour of CFS exposes a race which occurs if a switch is
requested when vt_mode.mode is VT_PROCESS.

The process with vc->vt_pid is signaled before vc->vt_newvt is set.
This causes the switch to fail when triggered by the monitoing process
because the target is still -1.

[ If the signal sending fails, the subsequent "reset_vc(vc)" will then
  reset vt_newvt to -1, so this works for that case too.   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Lübbe <jluebbe@lasnet.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ed7fdff5
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