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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial buffer memory leak
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:52:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186584775.3508.13.camel@x2.microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708081628.36897.laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:28 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> The patch fixes the problem (at least under the test conditions that lead me 
> to discover it in the first place). Thanks Alan.

It works here also, but I see a problem.

By deferring the flush, ioctl(TCFLSH) returns immediately
even though there is possibly still receive data being fed
to the ldisc.

If this is followed immediately by a read() then the
application gets unexpected (stale) data defeating the
purpose of the TCFLSH.

tty_buffer_flush() needs to wait for buf.flushpending to clear.

 
--
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-08  9:58 Serial buffer memory leak Laurent Pinchart
2007-08-08 13:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-08 14:11   ` Paul Fulghum
2007-08-08 14:28     ` Laurent Pinchart
2007-08-08 14:52       ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2007-08-08 15:16         ` Alan Cox
2007-08-08 15:32           ` Alan Cox
2007-08-08 17:35             ` Paul Fulghum
2007-08-08 14:26   ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-08-08 14:13 ` Paul Fulghum

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