Re: [PATCH v2] uart: fix race between uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown()

[Tycho Andersen]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 04:24:46AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> v2: switch to locking uport->lock on allocation/deallocation instead of
>     locking the per-port mutex in uart_put_char. Note that since
>     uport->lock is a spin lock, we have to switch the allocation to
>     GFP_ATOMIC.

Serge pointed out off-list that we may want to do the allocation
before the lock so that it's more likely to be successful. I'm happy
to send that change to this if it's what we want to do, I don't have a
strong preference.

Tycho