At Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:08:11 +0100,
Alan Cox wrote:
quoted text
> 
> > When re-starting X, it complains that it cannot change to VT7.
> > Via strace, 
> 
> Does this fix it
> 
> @@ -838,6 +839,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
>  void __cleanup_signal(struct signal_struct *sig)
>  {
>  	exit_thread_group_keys(sig);
> +	tty_kref_put(sig->tty);
>  	kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig);
>  }

Thanks, will give it a try.

The above can't be applied as is to next tree, so the following is
applied instead.


Takashi
---
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 600a264..2353660 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -834,6 +834,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 void __cleanup_signal(struct signal_struct *sig)
 {
+	tty_kref_put(sig->tty);
 	kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig);
 }
 
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