Re: [PATCH 1/2] TTY: ldisc, fix open flag handling

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> When a concrete ldisc open fails in tty_ldisc_open, we forget to clear
> TTY_LDISC_OPEN. This causes a false warning on the next ldisc open:
> WARNING: at drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:445 tty_ldisc_open+0x26/0x38()
> Hardware name: System Product Name
> Modules linked in: ...
> Pid: 5251, comm: a.out Tainted: G        W  2.6.32-5-686 #1
> Call Trace:
>  [<c1030321>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5e/0x8a
>  [<c1030357>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xa/0xc
>  [<c119311c>] ? tty_ldisc_open+0x26/0x38
>  [<c11936c5>] ? tty_set_ldisc+0x218/0x304
> ...
> 
> So clear the bit when failing...
> 
> Introduced in c65c9bc3efa (tty: rewrite the ldisc locking) back in
> 2.6.31-rc1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> Reported-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org>
> Tested-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org>

Is this still needed, or can I just use your:
	[PATCH v2 1/2] TTY: don't allow reopen when ldisc is changing
patch instead?

thanks,

greg k-h