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authorPaul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>2006-07-26 14:10:29 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-08-06 20:52:16 -0700
commite294e7d480581084e0a0a7044f8451023ae1a114 (patch)
tree4d04580709a4a8643ce5d5d590761e37b72004d9 /drivers
parent3b6eaf273f4a41cbba86e0cb164e5d69c84c25a3 (diff)
tty serialize flush_to_ldisc
Serialize processing of tty buffers in flush_to_ldisc to fix (very rare) corruption of tty buffer free list on SMP systems. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index a88b94a82b1..832163c3e95 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2776,7 +2776,7 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(void *private_)
struct tty_struct *tty = (struct tty_struct *) private_;
unsigned long flags;
struct tty_ldisc *disc;
- struct tty_buffer *tbuf;
+ struct tty_buffer *tbuf, *head;
int count;
char *char_buf;
unsigned char *flag_buf;
@@ -2793,7 +2793,9 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(void *private_)
goto out;
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
- while((tbuf = tty->buf.head) != NULL) {
+ head = tty->buf.head;
+ tty->buf.head = NULL;
+ while((tbuf = head) != NULL) {
while ((count = tbuf->commit - tbuf->read) != 0) {
char_buf = tbuf->char_buf_ptr + tbuf->read;
flag_buf = tbuf->flag_buf_ptr + tbuf->read;
@@ -2802,10 +2804,12 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(void *private_)
disc->receive_buf(tty, char_buf, flag_buf, count);
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
}
- if (tbuf->active)
+ if (tbuf->active) {
+ tty->buf.head = head;
break;
- tty->buf.head = tbuf->next;
- if (tty->buf.head == NULL)
+ }
+ head = tbuf->next;
+ if (head == NULL)
tty->buf.tail = NULL;
tty_buffer_free(tty, tbuf);
}