Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm5

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:25:56AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > and it is completely valid for ->close to be called while
> > > another thread is in ->open.  In fact, it's desirable since ->open may
> > > be waiting for the DCD line from a modem to activate, while there may
> > > be a simultaneous O_NONBLOCK open/ioctl/close from stty.
> > 
> > ->open is not called under tty_sem.  With this change, ->close is called
> > under tty_sem.
> > 
> > Are ->close implementations likely to block on hardware events?
> 
> Historically they have blocked in a well defined manner - eg when
> dropping the DTR signal for a specified minimum time period.
> 
> They can also block until the data awaiting transmission has been
> sent, which by default has a 30 second timeout, or may be configured
> to be "until sent".  Of course, if CTS is deasserted, we will wait
> until the timeout.

I suspect such drivers have always had a barndoor-sized hole in them, if
someone tries to open the thing while ->close is sleeping.

I'll take another look at the darn thing tomorrrow.