1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
index 101790cea4ae..20de673a7730 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
@@ -1838,13 +1838,13 @@ do_it_again:
 
                 if (tty->icanon && !L_EXTPROC(tty)) {
                         /* N.B. avoid overrun if nr == 0 */
+                        spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
                         while (nr && tty->read_cnt) {
                                 int eol;
 
                                 eol = test_and_clear_bit(tty->read_tail,
                                                 tty->read_flags);
                                 c = tty->read_buf[tty->read_tail];
-                                spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
                                 tty->read_tail = ((tty->read_tail+1) &
                                                   (N_TTY_BUF_SIZE-1));
                                 tty->read_cnt--;
@@ -1862,15 +1862,19 @@ do_it_again:
                                         if (tty_put_user(tty, c, b++)) {
                                                 retval = -EFAULT;
                                                 b--;
+                                                spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
                                                 break;
                                         }
                                         nr--;
                                 }
                                 if (eol) {
                                         tty_audit_push(tty);
+                                        spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
                                         break;
                                 }
+                                spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
                         }
+                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->read_lock, flags);
                         if (retval)
                                 break;
                 } else {