On 5/23/07, Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> wrote:
Simon Arlott napsal(a):
> On 22/05/07 21:06, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>> would the following resolve the problem?
>>
>> if(mutex_lock_interruptible(&info->write_mtx)) return
>> -ERESTARTSYS
>>
>> thanks for your comments
Hum. I remember suggesting the fix when this came few weeks back,
somehow the older version seems to have made it into Linus' tree.
> No. At least one user of tty_operations/tty_driver's write function
> doesn't check the return value so it would never be retried, mutex_lock
> should be used instead.
Replacing mutex_lock_interruptible() with a mutex_lock() could be a
change in behaviour visible to userspace. Best to continue to use
_interruptible. Returning EINTR would be safe choice because if
Simon's right that this isn't retried, we could end up breaking
userspace that isn't quite ready to see ERESTARTSYS coming out of
a write(2), but ...
Who? There are some drivers that returns ERESTARTSYS from write function.
Right, several others in drivers/char/ do return ERESTARTSYS. Hope
somebody picks this up -- no email listed in MAINTAINERS for this.
---
Check the return of mutex_lock_interruptible() in drivers/char/rocket.c
and return ERESTARTSYS if we were interrupted.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/rocket.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
---
diff -ruNp a/drivers/char/rocket.c b/drivers/char/rocket.c
--- a/drivers/char/rocket.c 2007-05-20 04:11:54.000000000 +0530
+++ b/drivers/char/rocket.c 2007-05-23 18:14:35.000000000 +0530
@@ -1702,7 +1702,8 @@ static int rp_write(struct tty_struct *t
if (count <= 0 || rocket_paranoia_check(info, "rp_write"))
return 0;
- mutex_lock_interruptible(&info->write_mtx);
+ if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&info->write_mtx))
+ return -ERESTARTSYS;
#ifdef ROCKET_DEBUG_WRITE
printk(KERN_INFO "rp_write %d chars...", count);
-
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