The session and foreground process group pid references will be
non-NULL if tiocsctty() is stealing the controlling tty from another
session (ie., arg == 1 in tiocsctty()).

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 7def510..e18491a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -516,8 +516,11 @@ static void __proc_set_tty(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
        unsigned long flags;
 
-       /* We should not have a session or pgrp to put here but.... */
        spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
+       /*
+        * The session and fg pgrp references will be non-NULL if
+        * tiocsctty() is stealing the controlling tty
+        */
        put_pid(tty->session);
        put_pid(tty->pgrp);
        tty->pgrp = get_pid(task_pgrp(current));
-- 
2.1.1

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