Re: [PATCH 1/2] slip: Fix deadlock in write_wakeup

From: Alexander Stein
Date: Mon Jun 23 2014 - 02:34:11 EST


On Monday 16 June 2014 19:55:04, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> Hello Tyler,
>
> On 16.06.2014 04:23, Tyler Hall wrote:
> > Use schedule_work() to avoid potentially taking the spinlock in
> > interrupt context.
> >
> (..)
>
> >
> > To deal with these issues, don't grab the lock in the wakeup function by
> > deferring the writeout to a workqueue. Also hold the lock during close
> > when de-assigning the tty pointer to safely disarm the worker and
> > timers.
> >
> > This bug is easily reproducible on the first transmit when slip is
> > used with the standard 8250 serial driver.
> >
>
> looks reasonable. Thanks for your patch!
> Indeed I can't remember ever using the slcan driver with a real serial
> controller hardware with irq line but only via serial-to-USB adapters :-)
> Due to the recent fixes from Andre and Alexander these two drivers got in
> motion again ...
>
> @Andre/Alexander: Can you please check if slcan still works in your setup. I
> don't have that hardware with me. I only was able to compile it successfully.

Sorry, I don't have access to the serial hardware currently.

Best regards
Alexander

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