On 12/08/2010 04:50 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:09:26PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 12/08/2010 04:02 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:24:46AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>> On 12/08/2010 01:43 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> 2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us 
>>>>> know.
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>> commit 7f90cfc505d613f4faf096e0d84ffe99208057d9 upstream.
>>>>>
>>>>> When a concrete ldisc open fails in tty_ldisc_open, we forget to clear
>>>>> TTY_LDISC_OPEN. This causes a false warning on the next ldisc open:
>>>>> WARNING: at drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:445 tty_ldisc_open+0x26/0x38()
>>>>> Hardware name: System Product Name
>>>>> Modules linked in: ...
>>>>> Pid: 5251, comm: a.out Tainted: G        W  2.6.32-5-686 #1
>>>>> Call Trace:
>>>>>  [<c1030321>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5e/0x8a
>>>>>  [<c1030357>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xa/0xc
>>>>>  [<c119311c>] ? tty_ldisc_open+0x26/0x38
>>>>>  [<c11936c5>] ? tty_set_ldisc+0x218/0x304
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> So clear the bit when failing...
>>>>>
>>>>> Introduced in c65c9bc3efa (tty: rewrite the ldisc locking) back in
>>>>> 2.6.31-rc1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
>>>>> Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
>>>>> Reported-by: Sergey Lapin <[email protected]>
>>>>> Tested-by: Sergey Lapin <[email protected]>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c |    9 +++++++--
>>>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> --- a/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
>>>>> @@ -444,9 +444,14 @@ static void tty_set_termios_ldisc(struct
>>>>>  
>>>>>  static int tty_ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_ldisc *ld)
>>>>>  {
>>>>> + int ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>>   WARN_ON(test_and_set_bit(TTY_LDISC_OPEN, &tty->flags));
>>>>> - if (ld->ops->open)
>>>>> -         return ld->ops->open(tty);
>>>>> + if (ld->ops->open) {
>>>>> +         ret = ld->ops->open(tty);
>>>>> +         if (ret)
>>>>> +                 clear_bit(TTY_LDISC_OPEN, &tty->flags);
>>>>> + }
>>>>>   return 0;
>>>>
>>>> Whoops, this should write return ret; (with int ret = 0;)
>>>>
>>>> Do you want me to send the patch against rebased on .32?
>>>
>>> No, send it based on Linus's tree as it's wrong there, right?  Then it
>>> will move through to the stable kernels.
>>
>> Nope, in 2.6.36 and newer it looks differently, only the .32 backport is
>> broken.
> 
> Ick, ok, sorry about that.  Yes, can you just send me a tiny patch that
> I can merge with the .32 patch to resolve this?

JFYI, Ben did last night in:
[PATCH] TTY: Fix error return from tty_ldisc_open()

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

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