On 02/12/2012 02:02 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:21:10AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/line.c
>> @@ -19,19 +19,29 @@ static irqreturn_t line_interrupt(int irq, void *data)
>>  {
>>      struct chan *chan = data;
>>      struct line *line = chan->line;
>> +    struct tty_struct *tty;
>> +
>> +    if (line) {
>> +            tty = tty_port_tty_get(&line->port);
>> +            chan_interrupt(&line->chan_list, &line->task, tty, irq);
>> +            tty_kref_put(tty);
>> +    }
>>  
>> -    if (line)
>> -            chan_interrupt(&line->chan_list, &line->task, line->tty, irq);
>>      return IRQ_HANDLED;
>>  }
> 
> Is tty_kref_put() safe in interrupt?  Here it seems to be OK, but in other
> callers...  More or less at random: drivers/tty/serial/lantiq.c has it
> called from lqasc_rx_int().  It seems to be possible to have it end up
> calling ->ops->shutdown() and in this case that'd be lqasc_shutdown().
> Which does a bunch of free_irq(), including the ->rx_irq, i.e. the one
> we have it called from.  Alan?

I'm not Alan, but will reply anyway. Yes, it is safe (unless the driver
does something tricky). In the driver you mention, this is uart_ops,
called from tty_port_operations' ->shutdown. And that's a different from
tty_operations' ->shutdown.

Yes, there are:
* tty->ops
* tty_port->ops
* uart_port->ops

uart_port->ops->shutdown is supposed to tear down interrupts like in
lantiq.c. It is called from tty_port->ops->shutdown. And that one is
allowed to be called only from user context (tty->ops->close and
tty->ops->hangup).

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

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