linux/include
Alan Cox 38db89799b tty: throttling race fix
The tty throttling code can race due to the lock drops. It takes very high
loads but this has been observed and verified by Rob Duncan.

The basic problem is that on an SMP box we can go

	CPU #1				CPU #2
	need to throttle ?
	suppose we should		buffer space cleared
					are we throttled
					yes ? - unthrottle
	call throttle method

This changeet take the termios lock to protect against this. The termios
lock isn't the initial obvious candidate but many implementations of throttle
methods already need to poke around their own termios structures (and nobody
really locks them against a racing change of flow control).

This does mean that anyone who is setting tty->low_latency = 1 and then
calling tty_flip_buffer_push from their unthrottle method is going to end up
collapsing in a pile of locks. However we've removed all the known bogus
users of low_latency = 1 and such use isn't safe anyway for other reasons so
catching it would be an improvement.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11 08:50:59 -07:00
..
acpi Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel 2009-04-28 17:21:20 -07:00
asm-generic asm-generic: fix local_add_unless macro 2009-05-18 08:34:08 -07:00
crypto
drm drm: Hook up DPMS property handling in drm_crtc.c. Add drm_helper_connector_dpms. 2009-06-04 09:32:12 +10:00
keys
linux tty: throttling race fix 2009-06-11 08:50:59 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (11381): ivtv/cx18: remove VIDIOC_INT_S_AUDIO_ROUTING debug support. 2009-04-06 21:44:28 -03:00
mtd
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-05-05 08:26:10 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-03-26 15:54:36 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] fc-transport: Close state transition-window during rport deletion. 2009-05-15 12:16:46 -04:00
sound ALSA: Release v1.0.20 2009-05-06 12:32:26 +02:00
trace tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header 2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
video include/video/cyblafb.h: remove it, it's unused 2009-04-13 15:04:30 -07:00
xen
Kbuild