On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> seems that commit 979990c6284814617 ("tty: improve tty_insert_flip_char()
>> fast path") panics my kernel.
>>
>> in particular, this part
>
> Looking into it now, sorry for the breakage.
Does this fix it? I definitely got this part wrong as I see now, we must
look up the 'tail' after calling __tty_buffer_request_room, not before.
Arnd
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
index 6a8563633d4b..f8eba1c5412f 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
@@ -372,12 +372,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_insert_flip_string_flags);
*/
int __tty_insert_flip_char(struct tty_port *port, unsigned char ch, char flag)
{
- struct tty_buffer *tb = port->buf.tail;
+ struct tty_buffer *tb;
int flags = (flag == TTY_NORMAL) ? TTYB_NORMAL : 0;
if (!__tty_buffer_request_room(port, 1, flags))
return 0;
+ tb = port->buf.tail;
if (~tb->flags & TTYB_NORMAL)
*flag_buf_ptr(tb, tb->used) = flag;
*char_buf_ptr(tb, tb->used++) = ch;
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
