Re: hci_ldsic nested locking problem

[Felipe Balbi <balbi-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>]

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:42:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 11:34 -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > when 8250 driver calls uart_write_wakeup(), the tty port lock is already
> > taken. hci_ldisc.c's implementation of ->write_wakeup() calls
> > tty->ops->write() to actually send the characters, but that call will
> > try to acquire the same port lock again.
> > 
> > Looking at other line disciplines that looks like a bug in hci_ldisc.c.
> > Am I correct to assume that ->write_wakeup() is supposed to *just*
> > wakeup the bottom half so we handle ->write() in another context ?
> > 
> > Is it legal to call tty->ops->write() from within ->write_wakeup() ?
> 
> It isn't because you might send all the bytes and go
> 
> 	write
> 		write_wakeup
> 			write
> 				write wakeup
> 					...
> 
> and recurse

cool, so there really is a bug in hci_ldisc. Marcel, any tips on how do
you want this to be sorted out ?

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balbi

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