This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled isdn/gigaset: reset tty->receive_room when attaching ser_gigaset to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: isdn-gigaset-reset-tty-receive_room-when-attaching-ser_gigaset.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Sep 26 11:13:07 PDT 2015 From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:37:13 +0200 Subject: isdn/gigaset: reset tty->receive_room when attaching ser_gigaset From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit fd98e9419d8d622a4de91f76b306af6aa627aa9c ] Commit 79901317ce80 ("n_tty: Don't flush buffer when closing ldisc"), first merged in kernel release 3.10, caused the following regression in the Gigaset M101 driver: Before that commit, when closing the N_TTY line discipline in preparation to switching to N_GIGASET_M101, receive_room would be reset to a non-zero value by the call to n_tty_flush_buffer() in n_tty's close method. With the removal of that call, receive_room might be left at zero, blocking data reception on the serial line. The present patch fixes that regression by setting receive_room to an appropriate value in the ldisc open method. Fixes: 79901317ce80 ("n_tty: Don't flush buffer when closing ldisc") Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c @@ -524,9 +524,18 @@ gigaset_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty) cs->hw.ser->tty = tty; atomic_set(&cs->hw.ser->refcnt, 1); init_completion(&cs->hw.ser->dead_cmp); - tty->disc_data = cs; + /* Set the amount of data we're willing to receive per call + * from the hardware driver to half of the input buffer size + * to leave some reserve. + * Note: We don't do flow control towards the hardware driver. + * If more data is received than will fit into the input buffer, + * it will be dropped and an error will be logged. This should + * never happen as the device is slow and the buffer size ample. + */ + tty->receive_room = RBUFSIZE/2; + /* OK.. Initialization of the datastructures and the HW is done.. Now * startup system and notify the LL that we are ready to run */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tilman@xxxxxxx are queue-4.1/isdn-gigaset-reset-tty-receive_room-when-attaching-ser_gigaset.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html