Re: [PATCH v3 07/23] tty: Strengthen no-subsequent-use guaranteeof tty_ldisc_halt()

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Thu Feb 07 2013 - 10:38:15 EST


On 02/05/2013 09:20 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> @@ -688,9 +702,9 @@ int tty_set_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty, int ldisc)
> * parallel to the change and re-referencing the tty.
> */
>
> - work = tty_ldisc_halt(tty);
> + retval = tty_ldisc_halt(tty, &work, 5 * HZ);
> if (o_tty)
> - o_work = tty_ldisc_halt(o_tty);
> + tty_ldisc_halt(o_tty, &o_work, 0);

Zero in there will cause the other end's work not to be cancelled and
TTY_LDISC_HALTED unset if there are two or more readers on the slave,
right? So there should be something like:
if (timeout)
retval = tty_ldisc_wait_idle(tty, timeout);
...

in tty_ldisc_halt.

--
js
suse labs
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