tty: release BTM while sleeping in block_til_ready

Most tty drivers may block while opening a device.
Since this possibly depends on another thread
closing it first and both threads may need the BTM,
we need to release it here.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/specialix.c b/drivers/char/specialix.c
index 7be456f760c9..9f8495b4fc8f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/specialix.c
+++ b/drivers/char/specialix.c
@@ -1365,7 +1365,9 @@ static int block_til_ready(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp,
                         retval = -ERESTARTSYS;
                         break;
                 }
+                tty_unlock();
                 schedule();
+                tty_lock();
         }
 
         set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);