Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received"

This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c.

It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues.

It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can
cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless
work loop when the buffer fills up").

It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf()
function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code,
and didn't actually check for the error in the caller.

And it didn't actually work at all.  BenH bisected down odd tty behavior
to it:
  "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X
   server for me, possibly related to PTYs.  For example, cat'ing a
   large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a
   loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace
   data in the quoted bits further down).

   ...

   Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the
   flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because
   the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop
   forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer
   process that could have emptied the PTY."

which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a.

Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue.

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
index 95d0a9c2dd13..0ad32888091c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
@@ -81,6 +81,38 @@ static inline int tty_put_user(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char x,
 	return put_user(x, ptr);
 }
 
+/**
+ *	n_tty_set__room	-	receive space
+ *	@tty: terminal
+ *
+ *	Called by the driver to find out how much data it is
+ *	permitted to feed to the line discipline without any being lost
+ *	and thus to manage flow control. Not serialized. Answers for the
+ *	"instant".
+ */
+
+static void n_tty_set_room(struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+	/* tty->read_cnt is not read locked ? */
+	int	left = N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - tty->read_cnt - 1;
+	int old_left;
+
+	/*
+	 * If we are doing input canonicalization, and there are no
+	 * pending newlines, let characters through without limit, so
+	 * that erase characters will be handled.  Other excess
+	 * characters will be beeped.
+	 */
+	if (left <= 0)
+		left = tty->icanon && !tty->canon_data;
+	old_left = tty->receive_room;
+	tty->receive_room = left;
+
+	/* Did this open up the receive buffer? We may need to flip */
+	if (left && !old_left)
+		schedule_work(&tty->buf.work);
+}
+
 static void put_tty_queue_nolock(unsigned char c, struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
 	if (tty->read_cnt < N_TTY_BUF_SIZE) {
@@ -152,6 +184,7 @@ static void reset_buffer_flags(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
 	tty->canon_head = tty->canon_data = tty->erasing = 0;
 	memset(&tty->read_flags, 0, sizeof tty->read_flags);
+	n_tty_set_room(tty);
 	check_unthrottle(tty);
 }
 
@@ -1327,19 +1360,17 @@ static void n_tty_write_wakeup(struct tty_struct *tty)
  *	calls one at a time and in order (or using flush_to_ldisc)
  */
 
-static unsigned int n_tty_receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty,
-		const unsigned char *cp, char *fp, int count)
+static void n_tty_receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *cp,
+			      char *fp, int count)
 {
 	const unsigned char *p;
 	char *f, flags = TTY_NORMAL;
 	int	i;
 	char	buf[64];
 	unsigned long cpuflags;
-	int left;
-	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (!tty->read_buf)
-		return 0;
+		return;
 
 	if (tty->real_raw) {
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, cpuflags);
@@ -1349,7 +1380,6 @@ static unsigned int n_tty_receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty,
 		memcpy(tty->read_buf + tty->read_head, cp, i);
 		tty->read_head = (tty->read_head + i) & (N_TTY_BUF_SIZE-1);
 		tty->read_cnt += i;
-		ret += i;
 		cp += i;
 		count -= i;
 
@@ -1359,10 +1389,8 @@ static unsigned int n_tty_receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty,
 		memcpy(tty->read_buf + tty->read_head, cp, i);
 		tty->read_head = (tty->read_head + i) & (N_TTY_BUF_SIZE-1);
 		tty->read_cnt += i;
-		ret += i;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->read_lock, cpuflags);
 	} else {
-		ret = count;
 		for (i = count, p = cp, f = fp; i; i--, p++) {
 			if (f)
 				flags = *f++;
@@ -1390,6 +1418,8 @@ static unsigned int n_tty_receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty,
 			tty->ops->flush_chars(tty);
 	}
 
+	n_tty_set_room(tty);
+
 	if ((!tty->icanon && (tty->read_cnt >= tty->minimum_to_wake)) ||
 		L_EXTPROC(tty)) {
 		kill_fasync(&tty->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
@@ -1402,12 +1432,8 @@ static unsigned int n_tty_receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty,
 	 * mode.  We don't want to throttle the driver if we're in
 	 * canonical mode and don't have a newline yet!
 	 */
-	left = N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - tty->read_cnt - 1;
-
-	if (left < TTY_THRESHOLD_THROTTLE)
+	if (tty->receive_room < TTY_THRESHOLD_THROTTLE)
 		tty_throttle(tty);
-
-	return ret;
 }
 
 int is_ignored(int sig)
@@ -1451,6 +1477,7 @@ static void n_tty_set_termios(struct tty_struct *tty, struct ktermios *old)
 	if (test_bit(TTY_HW_COOK_IN, &tty->flags)) {
 		tty->raw = 1;
 		tty->real_raw = 1;
+		n_tty_set_room(tty);
 		return;
 	}
 	if (I_ISTRIP(tty) || I_IUCLC(tty) || I_IGNCR(tty) ||
@@ -1503,6 +1530,7 @@ static void n_tty_set_termios(struct tty_struct *tty, struct ktermios *old)
 		else
 			tty->real_raw = 0;
 	}
+	n_tty_set_room(tty);
 	/* The termios change make the tty ready for I/O */
 	wake_up_interruptible(&tty->write_wait);
 	wake_up_interruptible(&tty->read_wait);
@@ -1784,6 +1812,8 @@ do_it_again:
 				retval = -ERESTARTSYS;
 				break;
 			}
+			/* FIXME: does n_tty_set_room need locking ? */
+			n_tty_set_room(tty);
 			timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -1855,8 +1885,10 @@ do_it_again:
 		 * longer than TTY_THRESHOLD_UNTHROTTLE in canonical mode,
 		 * we won't get any more characters.
 		 */
-		if (n_tty_chars_in_buffer(tty) <= TTY_THRESHOLD_UNTHROTTLE)
+		if (n_tty_chars_in_buffer(tty) <= TTY_THRESHOLD_UNTHROTTLE) {
+			n_tty_set_room(tty);
 			check_unthrottle(tty);
+		}
 
 		if (b - buf >= minimum)
 			break;
@@ -1878,6 +1910,7 @@ do_it_again:
 	} else if (test_and_clear_bit(TTY_PUSH, &tty->flags))
 		 goto do_it_again;
 
+	n_tty_set_room(tty);
 	return retval;
 }