[patch 11/73] tty: fix logic change introduced by wait_event_interruptible_timeout()

Greg KH
2008-02-06T23:59:24Z

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2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: "Cory T. Tusar" <ctusar@videon-central.com>

patch db99247ac68fc352100090ad7704fb5efb9327b6 in mainline.

Commit 5a52bd4a2dcb570333ce6fe2e16cd311650dbdc8 introduced a subtle logic
change in tty_wait_until_sent(). The original version would only error out
of the 'do { ... } while (timeout)' loop if signal_pending() evaluated to
true; a timeout or break due to an empty buffer would fall out of the loop
and into the tty->driver->wait_until_sent handling. The current
implementation will error out on either a pending signal or an empty
buffer, falling through to the tty->driver->wait_until_sent handling only
on a timeout.

The ->wait_until_sent() will not be reached if the buffer empties before
timeout jiffies have elapsed. This behavior differs from that prior to commit
5a52bd4a2dcb570333ce6fe2e16cd311650dbdc8.

I turned this up while using a little serial download utility to bootstrap an
ARM-based eval board. The util worked fine on 2.6.22.x, but consistently
failed on 2.6.23.x. Once I'd determined that, I narrowed things down with git
bisect, and found the above difference in logic in tty_wait_until_sent() by
inspection.

This change reverts the logic flow in tty_wait_until_sent() to match that
prior to the aforementioned commit.

Signed-off-by: Cory T. Tusar <ctusar@videon-central.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void tty_wait_until_sent(struct tty_stru
if (!timeout)
timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
if (wait_event_interruptible_timeout(tty->write_wait,
- !tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(tty), timeout))
+ !tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(tty), timeout) < 0)
return;
if (tty->driver->wait_until_sent)
tty->driver->wait_until_sent(tty, timeout);

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