Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: avoid calling tty_ldisc_flush() in atomiccontext

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jul 05 2010 - 22:24:26 EST


From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 02:18:27 +0200 (CEST)

> Remove the call to tty_ldisc_flush() from the RESULT_NO_CARRIER
> branch of isdn_tty_modem_result(), as already proposed in commit
> 00409bb045887ec5e7b9e351bc080c38ab6bfd33.
> This avoids a "sleeping function called from invalid context" BUG
> when the hardware driver calls the statcallb() callback with
> command==ISDN_STAT_DHUP in atomic context, which in turn calls
> isdn_tty_modem_result(RESULT_NO_CARRIER, ~), and from there,
> tty_ldisc_flush() which may sleep.
>
> Impact: bugfix
> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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