Under the conditions that UML uses it, tcgetattr is guaranteed to
return -EINTR when the console is attached to /dev/ptmx, making
generic_console_write hang because it loops, calling tcgetattr until
it succeeds.  This is a host bug - see
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119618990807182&w=2 for the
details.

This patch works around it by blocking SIGIO while the terminal
attributes are being fiddled.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c       2007-11-21 
11:43:50.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c    2007-11-27 14:03:10.000000000 
-0500
@@ -74,10 +74,16 @@ void generic_free(void *data)
 
 int generic_console_write(int fd, const char *buf, int n)
 {
+       sigset_t old, no_sigio;
        struct termios save, new;
        int err;
 
        if (isatty(fd)) {
+               sigemptyset(&no_sigio);
+               sigaddset(&no_sigio, SIGIO);
+               if (sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &no_sigio, &old))
+                       goto error;
+
                CATCH_EINTR(err = tcgetattr(fd, &save));
                if (err)
                        goto error;
@@ -97,8 +103,11 @@ int generic_console_write(int fd, const 
         * Restore raw mode, in any case; we *must* ignore any error apart
         * EINTR, except for debug.
         */
-       if (isatty(fd))
+       if (isatty(fd)) {
                CATCH_EINTR(tcsetattr(fd, TCSAFLUSH, &save));
+               sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &old, NULL);
+       }
+
        return err;
 error:
        return -errno;

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