m, as there I see no race. OTOH, 1) and 3) can happen without problems. This patch the case 3) by checking TTY_LDISC_CHANGING along with TTY_CLOSING in tty_reopen. 1) will be fixed in the following patch. Nicely reproducible with two processes: while (1) { fd = open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) { warn("open"); continue; } close(fd); } -------- while (1) { fd = open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDWR); ld1 = 0; ld2 = 2; while (1) { ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ld1); ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ld2); } close(fd); } Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Reported-by: Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Alan Cox Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman ¶'