linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty_ioctl: Soft carrier handling

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Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:26:47 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty_ioctl: Soft carrier handling

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:56:13 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> First cut at moving the soft carrier handling knowledge entirely into the
> core code. One or two drivers still needed to snoop these functions to
> track CLOCAL internally. Instead make TIOCSSOFTCAR generate the same
> driver calls as other termios ioctls changing the clocal flag. This
> allows us to remove any driver knowledge and special casing. Also while
> we are at it we can fix the error handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
> 
> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.25-rc3-mm1/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c linux-2.6.25-rc3-mm1/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c
> --- linux.vanilla-2.6.25-rc3-mm1/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c	2008-03-10 12:57:53.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc3-mm1/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c	2008-03-10 13:27:09.000000000 +0000
> @@ -753,6 +756,32 @@
>  }
>  
>  /**
> + *	tty_change_softcar	-	carrier change ioctl helper
> + *	@tty: tty to update
> + *	@arg: enable/disable CLOCAL
> + *
> + *	Perform a change to the CLOCAL state and call into the driver
> + *	layer to make it visible. All done with the termios mutex
> + */
> + 
> +static int tty_change_softcar(struct tty_struct *tty, int arg)
> +{
> +	int ret = 0;
> +	int bit = arg ? CLOCAL : 0;
> +	struct ktermios old = *tty->termios;
> +	
> +	mutex_lock(&tty->termios_mutex);

change_termios() modifies tty->termios under tty->termios_mutex, which is
very sensible.

Hence (surely?) all code which takes a copy of tty->termios should do so
under tty->termios_mutex so that it doesn't get a copy of an internally 
inconsistent, half-overwritten structure.

But this code doesn't do that, nor does change_termios(), set_termios() and
perhaps other places.

Confused.

> +	tty->termios->c_cflag &= ~CLOCAL;
> +	tty->termios->c_cflag |= bit;
> +	if (tty->driver->set_termios)
> +		tty->driver->set_termios(tty, &old);
> +	if ((tty->termios->c_cflag & CLOCAL) != bit)
> +		ret = -EINVAL;	
> +	mutex_unlock(&tty->termios_mutex);
> +	return ret;
> +}

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