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authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2011-11-16 16:27:07 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-11-17 11:36:11 -0800
commitdf92d0561de364de53c42abc5d43e04ab6f326a5 (patch)
tree619d22a1115944133a83070ac6b7bddca3047829 /drivers/tty
parent6edf0c9b1c26d047370cf2f35ff6bb3082243ec3 (diff)
TTY: ldisc, allow waiting for ldisc arbitrarily long
To fix a nasty bug in ldisc hup vs. reinit we need to wait infinitely long for ldisc to be gone. So here we add a parameter to tty_ldisc_wait_idle to allow that. This is only a preparation for the real fix which is done in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Dmitriy Matrosov <sgf.dma@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
index 512c49f98e85..534d176a78ed 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -547,15 +547,16 @@ static void tty_ldisc_flush_works(struct tty_struct *tty)
/**
* tty_ldisc_wait_idle - wait for the ldisc to become idle
* @tty: tty to wait for
+ * @timeout: for how long to wait at most
*
* Wait for the line discipline to become idle. The discipline must
* have been halted for this to guarantee it remains idle.
*/
-static int tty_ldisc_wait_idle(struct tty_struct *tty)
+static int tty_ldisc_wait_idle(struct tty_struct *tty, long timeout)
{
- int ret;
+ long ret;
ret = wait_event_timeout(tty_ldisc_idle,
- atomic_read(&tty->ldisc->users) == 1, 5 * HZ);
+ atomic_read(&tty->ldisc->users) == 1, timeout);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
return ret > 0 ? 0 : -EBUSY;
@@ -665,7 +666,7 @@ int tty_set_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty, int ldisc)
tty_ldisc_flush_works(tty);
- retval = tty_ldisc_wait_idle(tty);
+ retval = tty_ldisc_wait_idle(tty, 5 * HZ);
tty_lock();
mutex_lock(&tty->ldisc_mutex);
@@ -762,7 +763,7 @@ static int tty_ldisc_reinit(struct tty_struct *tty, int ldisc)
if (IS_ERR(ld))
return -1;
- WARN_ON_ONCE(tty_ldisc_wait_idle(tty));
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(tty_ldisc_wait_idle(tty, 5 * HZ));
tty_ldisc_close(tty, tty->ldisc);
tty_ldisc_put(tty->ldisc);