linux-kernel - Re: serial core: crash / race condition on unbind

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:49:56 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: serial core: crash / race condition on unbind

On 03/11/2014 06:58 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>           [...]
>>>
>>>           /*
>>>            * Indicate that there isn't a port here anymore.
>>>            */
>>>           uport->type = PORT_UNKNOWN;
>>>
>>>           state->uart_port = NULL;
>>
>> How did this ever work?
>>
>> Detaching the ll driver from the tty port in this manner is not ok;
>> as you already note, it blows up if consoles are still running.
>
> No one unbinds serial drivers using serial_core, as all these drivers are
> for fixed hardware?

Yep, never tested until now :)
Do you need this to work?

> Hot-pluggable usb-serial doesn't use serial_core.

I guess none of the 8250 PCI adapters are hot-pluggable...

Regards,
Peter Hurley



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