tty: USB can now use the shutdown method for kref based freeing of ports
authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:13:24 +0000 (13:13 -0700)
committerLive-CD User <linux@linux.site>
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:13:24 +0000 (13:13 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c

index 21dd72a5a715aac46bd268558e8a3cb6baa9c354..31c7a0939b986079397671bff061e86d451cea66 100644 (file)
@@ -316,16 +316,19 @@ static void serial_do_down(struct usb_serial_port *port)
  *
  *     Do the resource freeing and refcount dropping for the port. We must
  *     be careful about ordering and we must avoid freeing up the console.
+ *
+ *     Called when the last tty kref is dropped.
  */
 
-static void serial_do_free(struct usb_serial_port *port)
+static void serial_do_free(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
+       struct usb_serial_port *port = tty->driver_data;
        struct usb_serial *serial;
        struct module *owner;
 
        /* The console is magical, do not hang up the console hardware
           or there will be tears */
-       if (port->console)
+       if (port == NULL || port->console)
                return;
 
        serial = port->serial;
@@ -350,30 +353,12 @@ static void serial_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
 
        dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
 
-       /* FIXME:
-          This leaves a very narrow race. Really we should do the
-          serial_do_free() on tty->shutdown(), but tty->shutdown can
-          be called from IRQ context and serial_do_free can sleep.
-
-          The right fix is probably to make the tty free (which is rare)
-          and thus tty->shutdown() occur via a work queue and simplify all
-          the drivers that use it.
-       */
-       if (tty_hung_up_p(filp)) {
-               /* serial_hangup already called serial_down at this point.
-                  Another user may have already reopened the port but
-                  serial_do_free is refcounted */
-               serial_do_free(port);
-               return;
-       }
-
        if (tty_port_close_start(&port->port, tty, filp) == 0)
                return;
-
        serial_do_down(port);           
        tty_port_close_end(&port->port, tty);
        tty_port_tty_set(&port->port, NULL);
-       serial_do_free(port);
+
 }
 
 static void serial_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
@@ -1243,6 +1228,7 @@ static const struct tty_operations serial_ops = {
        .chars_in_buffer =      serial_chars_in_buffer,
        .tiocmget =             serial_tiocmget,
        .tiocmset =             serial_tiocmset,
+       .shutdown =             serial_do_free,
        .proc_fops =            &serial_proc_fops,
 };