Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 6 authors, 2020-10-28

Re: [patch V2 02/13] USB: serial: keyspan_pda: Replace in_interrupt() usage

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: 2020-10-26 12:48:00
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On 2020-10-25 17:56:47 [+0100], Johan Hovold wrote:
There's a ton of issues with this driver, but this is arguably making
things worse. A line discipline may call write() from just about any
context so we cannot rely on tty being non-NULL here (e.g. PPP).
I wasn't aware of that. I've been looking at the callers each time a
`tty' was passed it looked like a preemptible context (due to mutex /
GFP_KERNEL) and so on.
Johan
Sebastian

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