Although this warning uncovered a multitude of races and errors
in the tty and ldisc layers, this diagnostic now has too many
false-positives.
An expected outcome of the separation of driver i/o paths from
tty lifetimes (added in 3.9) is that the tty may already be
in advanced stages of teardown when scheduled flip buffer work
runs. Ldisc i/o is prevented in this case because flush_to_ldisc()
cannot acquire an ldisc reference.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <pe...@hurleysoftware.com>
---
drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
index 0dd35ce..8e8d730 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work)
struct tty_ldisc *disc;
tty = port->itty;
- if (WARN_RATELIMIT(tty == NULL, "tty is NULL\n"))
+ if (tty == NULL)
return;
disc = tty_ldisc_ref(tty);
--
1.8.1.2
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