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tty : Fix bits and note more bits to fix

PATCH New Alan Cox 1 participant 1 message Aug 21, 2006 Char and misc drivers

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PATCH 1/1 tty : Fix bits and note more bits to fix

If you driver implements "break on" and "break off" this ensures you won't get multiple overlapping requests or requests in parallel. If your driver has its own break handling then its still your problem as the driver author.

Break is also now serialized against writes from user space properly but no new guarantees are made driver level about writes from the line discipline itself (eg flow control or echo)

drivers/char/tty_io.c +11 -8
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc4-mm2/drivers/char/tty_io.c linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2718,6 +2720,8 @@
  *	Locking:
  *		Called functions take tty_ldisc_lock
  *		current->signal->tty check is safe without locks
+ *
+ *	FIXME: may race normal receive processing
  */
 
 static int tiocsti(struct tty_struct *tty, char __user *p)
@@ -2877,9 +2881,7 @@
  *	Locking:
  *		Takes tasklist lock internally to walk sessions
  *		Takes task_lock() when updating signal->tty
- *
- *	FIXME: tty_mutex is needed to protect signal->tty references.
- *	FIXME: why task_lock on the signal->tty reference ??
+ *		Takes tty_mutex() to protect tty instance
  *
  */
 
@@ -2914,9 +2916,11 @@
 		} else
 			return -EPERM;
 	}
+	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
 	task_lock(current);
 	current->signal->tty = tty;
 	task_unlock(current);
+	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 	current->signal->tty_old_pgrp = 0;
 	tty->session = current->signal->session;
 	tty->pgrp = process_group(current);
@@ -2956,8 +2960,6 @@
  *	permitted where the tty session is our session.
  *
  *	Locking: None
- *
- *	FIXME: current->signal->tty referencing is unsafe.
  */
 
 static int tiocspgrp(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *real_tty, pid_t __user *p)
@@ -3036,19 +3038,20 @@
  *	timed break functionality.
  *
  *	Locking:
- *		None
+ *		atomic_write_lock serializes
  *
- *	FIXME:
- *		What if two overlap
  */
 
 static int send_break(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int duration)
 {
+	if(mutex_lock_interruptible(&tty->atomic_write_lock))
+		return -EINTR;
 	tty->driver->break_ctl(tty, -1);
 	if (!signal_pending(current)) {
 		msleep_interruptible(duration);
 	}
 	tty->driver->break_ctl(tty, 0);
+	mutex_unlock(&tty->atomic_write_lock);
 	if (signal_pending(current))
 		return -EINTR;
 	return 0;
@@ -3141,6 +3144,8 @@
 	if (tty_paranoia_check(tty, inode, "tty_ioctl"))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/* CHECKME: is this safe as one end closes ? */
+	
 	real_tty = tty;
 	if (tty->driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY &&
 	    tty->driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER)