On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 05:23:27PM -0700, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:16:29PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> Today's linux-next merge of the tty tree got a conflict in:
> >>
> >> drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> >>
> >> between commit:
> >>
> >> e9036d066236 ("tty: Drop krefs for interrupted tty lock")
> >>
> >> from the tty.current tree and commit:
> >>
> >> d6203d0c7b73 ("tty: Refactor tty_open()")
> >>
> >> from the tty tree.
> >>
> >> I fixed it up (I think - see below) and can carry the fix as necessary
> >> (no action is required).
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >> Stephen Rothwell
> >>
> >> diff --cc drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> >> index a7eacef1bd22,8d26ed79bb4c..000000000000
> >> --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> >> @@@ -2004,6 -2009,69 +2009,68 @@@ static struct tty_driver *tty_lookup_dr
> >> }
> >>
> >> /**
> >> + * tty_open_by_driver - open a tty device
> >> + * @device: dev_t of device to open
> >> + * @inode: inode of device file
> >> + * @filp: file pointer to tty
> >> + *
> >> + * Performs the driver lookup, checks for a reopen, or otherwise
> >> + * performs the first-time tty initialization.
> >> + *
> >> + * Returns the locked initialized or re-opened &tty_struct
> >> + *
> >> + * Claims the global tty_mutex to serialize:
> >> + * - concurrent first-time tty initialization
> >> + * - concurrent tty driver removal w/ lookup
> >> + * - concurrent tty removal from driver table
> >> + */
> >> + static struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(dev_t device, struct inode
> >> *inode,
> >> + struct file *filp)
> >> + {
> >> + struct tty_struct *tty;
> >> + struct tty_driver *driver = NULL;
> >> + int index = -1;
> >> + int retval;
> >> +
> >> + mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
> >> + driver = tty_lookup_driver(device, filp, &index);
> >> + if (IS_ERR(driver)) {
> >> + mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
> >> + return ERR_CAST(driver);
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + /* check whether we're reopening an existing tty */
> >> + tty = tty_driver_lookup_tty(driver, inode, index);
> >> + if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
> >> + mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
> >> + goto out;
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + if (tty) {
> >> + mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
> >> + retval = tty_lock_interruptible(tty);
> >> ++ tty_kref_put(tty); /* drop kref from
> >> tty_driver_lookup_tty() */
> >> + if (retval) {
> >> + if (retval == -EINTR)
> >> + retval = -ERESTARTSYS;
> >> + tty = ERR_PTR(retval);
> >> + goto out;
> >> + }
> >> - /* safe to drop the kref from tty_driver_lookup_tty() */
> >> - tty_kref_put(tty);
> >> + retval = tty_reopen(tty);
> >> + if (retval < 0) {
> >> + tty_unlock(tty);
> >> + tty = ERR_PTR(retval);
> >> + }
> >> + } else { /* Returns with the tty_lock held for now */
> >> + tty = tty_init_dev(driver, index);
> >> + mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
> >> + }
> >> + out:
> >> + tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
> >> + return tty;
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + /**
> >> * tty_open - open a tty device
> >> * @inode: inode of device file
> >> * @filp: file pointer to tty
> >
> > Peter warned me this was going to happen...
> >
> > Peter, is the merge above correct?
>
> Greg, this merge correction did not make it into 4.6-rc1.
>
> Was I supposed to send a separate patch for this merge change?
> Should I now?
The patch you sent should be fine, thanks.
greg k-h
