Re: [PATCH v2] tty: Add driver unthrottle in ioctl(...,TCFLSH,..).

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 03:02:56 +0400
Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru> wrote:

> Regression 'tty: fix "IRQ45: nobody cared"'
> Regression commit 7b292b4bf9a9d6098440d85616d6ca4c608b8304
> 
>   Function reset_buffer_flags() also invoked during the ioctl(...,TCFLSH,..). 
> At the time of request we can have full buffers and throttled driver too. 
> If we don't unthrottle driver, we can get forever throttled driver, because,
> after request, we will have empty buffers and throttled driver and 
> there is no place to unthrottle driver.
> It simple reproduce with "pty" pair then one side sleep on tty->write_wait,
> and other side do ioctl(...,TCFLSH,..). Then there is no place to do writers wake up.
> 
> About 'tty: fix "IRQ45: nobody cared"':
>   We don't call tty_unthrottle() if release last filp - ('tty->count == 0')
> In other case it must be safely. 
> 
> Unfortunately, many drivers indirectly invoke tty_unthrottle() before TTY LAYER
> decremented (tty->count).
>   This Patch help us catch bugs in tty's drivers and invoke tty_unthrottle()
> in right moment only.

This isn't really what I meant by fixing the problem. Simply declaring
the known universe to disagree with your view and adding a WARN isn't a
fix.

Alan