netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Fix locking issues in PPP, 6pack, mkiss and strip line disciplines.

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:27:25 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	guido@...ntalancia.com, paulus@...ba.org,
	linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, hans@...ac.ele.tue.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Fix locking issues in PPP, 6pack, mkiss and strip
 line disciplines.

>	spin_lock_bh() --> BH disable in hard IRQ, OH NOEZ!

No I didn't see his original message just the patch - his original is a
fixed bug.

> mkiss_receive_buf(), the problematic code path, is invoked by
> the TTY layer directly from LDISC flushing and the TTY device's
> IRQ handler here.
> 
> How does networking's TX policy have anything to do with this?

Sorry I'd been looking at the other side stuff with ppp which is a
sleeping v bh issue and misinterpreted Ralf's post.

In fact Ralf's fix isn't needed. The incorrect uses of tty->low_latency
all got killed and the pty code got rewritten which was the other case
that could occur.

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