login: pause devices before acknowledging VT switches

If a session controller does not need synchronous VT switches, we allow
them to pass VT control to logind, which acknowledges all VT switches
unconditionally. This works fine with all sessions using the dbus API,
but causes out-of-sync device use if we switch to legacy sessions that
are notified via VT signals. Those are processed before logind notices
the session-switch via sysfs. Therefore, leaving the old session still
active for a short amount of time.

This, in fact, may cause the legacy session to prepare graphics devices
before the old session was deactivated, and thus, maybe causing the old
session to interfer with graphics device usage.

Fix this by releasing devices immediately before acknowledging VT
switches. This way, sessions without VT handlers are required to support
async session switching (which they do in that case, anyway).

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/login/logind-session.c b/src/login/logind-session.c
index eeb58c9031..477ac9ab1b 100644
--- a/src/login/logind-session.c
+++ b/src/login/logind-session.c
@@ -1053,6 +1053,27 @@ void session_restore_vt(Session *s) {
         s->vtfd = safe_close(s->vtfd);
 }
 
+void session_leave_vt(Session *s) {
+        assert(s);
+
+        /* This is called whenever we get a VT-switch signal from the kernel.
+         * We acknowledge all of them unconditionally. Note that session are
+         * free to overwrite those handlers and we only register them for
+         * sessions with controllers. Legacy sessions are not affected.
+         * However, if we switch from a non-legacy to a legacy session, we must
+         * make sure to pause all device before acknowledging the switch. We
+         * process the real switch only after we are notified via sysfs, so the
+         * legacy session might have already started using the devices. If we
+         * don't pause the devices before the switch, we might confuse the
+         * session we switch to. */
+
+        if (s->vtfd < 0)
+                return;
+
+        session_device_pause_all(s);
+        ioctl(s->vtfd, VT_RELDISP, 1);
+}
+
 bool session_is_controller(Session *s, const char *sender) {
         assert(s);