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| author | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> | 2012-06-22 17:40:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-06-27 04:25:38 +0200 |
| commit | 0a44ab41eb833d07e3ec807d87151c7164d4f075 (patch) | |
| tree | 8073a65697742960db6bb61fecbc70bd06b15fb1 /drivers | |
| parent | Merge 3.5-rc4 into tty-next (diff) | |
| download | linux-0a44ab41eb833d07e3ec807d87151c7164d4f075.tar.xz linux-0a44ab41eb833d07e3ec807d87151c7164d4f075.zip | |
tty: note race we need to fix
This was identified by Vincent Pillet with a high speed interface that uses
low latency mode. In the low latency case we have a tiny race but it can
be hit.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c index ee1c268f5f9d..4f34491b65c6 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c +++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c @@ -1432,6 +1432,12 @@ static void n_tty_receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *cp, */ if (tty->receive_room < TTY_THRESHOLD_THROTTLE) tty_throttle(tty); + + /* FIXME: there is a tiny race here if the receive room check runs + before the other work executes and empties the buffer (upping + the receiving room and unthrottling. We then throttle and get + stuck. This has been observed and traced down by Vincent Pillet/ + We need to address this when we sort out out the rx path locking */ } int is_ignored(int sig) |