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From: ierdnah <ierdnah@go.ro>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel oops!
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:47:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1106866066.20523.3.camel@ierdnac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501230943020.4191@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 09:51 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:


with this patch the oops is gone(also tested with PREEMPT and no oops)
> 
> ----
> --- 1.32/drivers/char/pty.c	2005-01-10 17:29:36 -08:00
> +++ edited/drivers/char/pty.c	2005-01-23 09:49:16 -08:00
> @@ -149,13 +149,15 @@
>  static int pty_chars_in_buffer(struct tty_struct *tty)
>  {
>  	struct tty_struct *to = tty->link;
> +	ssize_t (*chars_in_buffer)(struct tty_struct *);
>  	int count;
>  
> -	if (!to || !to->ldisc.chars_in_buffer)
> +	/* We should get the line discipline lock for "tty->link" */
> +	if (!to || !(chars_in_buffer = to->ldisc.chars_in_buffer))
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	/* The ldisc must report 0 if no characters available to be read */
> -	count = to->ldisc.chars_in_buffer(to);
> +	count = chars_in_buffer(to);
>  
>  	if (tty->driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_SLAVE) return count;
>  

is this patch better? should i test this too?

--- 1.32/drivers/char/pty.c     2005-01-10 17:29:36 -08:00
+++ edited/drivers/char/pty.c   2005-01-23 10:21:04 -08:00
@@ -149,13 +149,17 @@
 static int pty_chars_in_buffer(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
        struct tty_struct *to = tty->link;
-       int count;
+       int count = 0;
 
-       if (!to || !to->ldisc.chars_in_buffer)
-               return 0;
-
-       /* The ldisc must report 0 if no characters available to be read
*/
-       count = to->ldisc.chars_in_buffer(to);
+       if (to) {
+               struct tty_ldisc *ld = tty_ldisc_ref(to);
+               if (ld) {
+                       if (ld->chars_in_buffer) {
+                               count = ld->chars_in_buffer(to);
+                               tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
+                       }
+               }
+       }
 
        if (tty->driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_SLAVE) return count;
 




-- 
ierdnah <ierdnah@go.ro>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-27 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-22 23:36 kernel oops! ierdnah
2005-01-23  6:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-23 12:29   ` ierdnah
2005-01-23 17:51     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-24 19:21       ` ierdnah
2005-01-27 22:47       ` ierdnah [this message]
2005-01-27 23:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-28 20:00           ` ierdnah
2005-01-28 20:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-28 22:22               ` ierdnah
2005-01-23 13:15   ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-01-23 18:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-24 15:44       ` Alan Cox
2005-01-24 17:58         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-24 18:09           ` Alan Cox
2005-01-24 15:44     ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-07 23:15 Kernel Oops? Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-01-07 23:30 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-09  2:25   ` Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-01-09  3:02     ` Alan Cox
2008-01-09  3:24       ` Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-01-10 23:05         ` Jesper Juhl
2008-01-07 23:34 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-09-17 14:05 kernel Oops!!!! Jysuis Parla
2004-09-17 14:05 Jysuis Parla
2004-09-17 17:30 ` Gene Heskett
     [not found] <3A08FA77.703BCC07@rdstm.ro>
2000-11-08 16:29 ` Kernel oops! Venky

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