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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: balbi@ti.com
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Muralidharan Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>,
	linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hci_ldsic nested locking problem
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:42:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1395333736.22077.32.camel@acox1-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140320163435.GH32692@saruman.home>

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 11:34 -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when 8250 driver calls uart_write_wakeup(), the tty port lock is already
> taken. hci_ldisc.c's implementation of ->write_wakeup() calls
> tty->ops->write() to actually send the characters, but that call will
> try to acquire the same port lock again.
> 
> Looking at other line disciplines that looks like a bug in hci_ldisc.c.
> Am I correct to assume that ->write_wakeup() is supposed to *just*
> wakeup the bottom half so we handle ->write() in another context ?
> 
> Is it legal to call tty->ops->write() from within ->write_wakeup() ?

It isn't because you might send all the bytes and go

	write
		write_wakeup
			write
				write wakeup
					...

and recurse

Alan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-20 16:34 Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 16:42 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2014-03-20 17:16   ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 17:29     ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 17:34       ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 17:35         ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 18:45           ` Greg KH
2014-03-20 18:54             ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 17:31     ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 18:11       ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 18:21         ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 18:25           ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 19:01             ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 19:03               ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 19:16             ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 19:25               ` Felipe Balbi

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