linux-kernel - Re: Serial buffer memory leak

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Date:	Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:35:37 -0500
From:	Paul Fulghum <paulkf@...rogate.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@...-semaphore.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial buffer memory leak

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:32 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> Ok try this for size folks. Use tty->flags bits for the flush status.
> Wait for the flag to clear again before returning
> Fix the doc error noted
> Fix flush of empty queue leaving stale flushpending
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>

It looks good and clean.

I compiled and tested the patch with interleaved
tcflush() and read() calls, allowing random amounts
of receive data to accumulate between each call.

Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@...rogate.com>

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd

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