tty: Don't block on IO when ldisc change is pending
[ Upstream commit c96cf923a98d1b094df9f0cf97a83e118817e31b ]
There might be situations where tty_ldisc_lock() has blocked, but there
is already IO on tty and it prevents line discipline changes.
It might theoretically turn into dead-lock.
Basically, provide more priority to pending tty_ldisc_lock() than to
servicing reads/writes over tty.
User-visible issue was reported by Mikulas where on pa-risc with
Debian 5 reboot took either 80 seconds, 3 minutes or 3:25 after proper
locking in tty_reopen().
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
index 3eb3f2a..706faca 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -348,6 +348,11 @@
{
int ret;
+ /* Kindly asking blocked readers to release the read side */
+ set_bit(TTY_LDISC_CHANGING, &tty->flags);
+ wake_up_interruptible_all(&tty->read_wait);
+ wake_up_interruptible_all(&tty->write_wait);
+
ret = __tty_ldisc_lock(tty, timeout);
if (!ret)
return -EBUSY;
@@ -358,6 +363,8 @@
void tty_ldisc_unlock(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
clear_bit(TTY_LDISC_HALTED, &tty->flags);
+ /* Can be cleared here - ldisc_unlock will wake up writers firstly */
+ clear_bit(TTY_LDISC_CHANGING, &tty->flags);
__tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
}