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authorAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>2007-07-15 23:39:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 09:05:41 -0700
commit9c1729db3e6d738f872bcb090212af00473bf666 (patch)
treebe68b99784607953fb50d9330d34c2728215be57 /drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
parentc9c64155f5a81b4b41e98f9fb9c464a565c1bf72 (diff)
Prevent an O_NDELAY writer from blocking when a tty write is blocked by the tty atomic writer mutex
Without this a tty write could block if a previous blocking tty write was in progress on the same tty and blocked by a line discipline or hardware event. Originally found and reported by Dave Johnson. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
index fd471cb3338f..918e24c885f1 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ static int send_prio_char(struct tty_struct *tty, char ch)
return 0;
}
- if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&tty->atomic_write_lock))
+ if (tty_write_lock(tty, 0) < 0)
return -ERESTARTSYS;
if (was_stopped)
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ static int send_prio_char(struct tty_struct *tty, char ch)
tty->driver->write(tty, &ch, 1);
if (was_stopped)
stop_tty(tty);
- mutex_unlock(&tty->atomic_write_lock);
+ tty_write_unlock(tty);
return 0;
}