From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] uart: fix race between uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown()
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 16:39:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180706143919.GA2344@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180629164330.GL27027@cisco.cisco.com>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:43:30AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 04:24:46AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > v2: switch to locking uport->lock on allocation/deallocation instead of
> > locking the per-port mutex in uart_put_char. Note that since
> > uport->lock is a spin lock, we have to switch the allocation to
> > GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> Serge pointed out off-list that we may want to do the allocation
> before the lock so that it's more likely to be successful. I'm happy
> to send that change to this if it's what we want to do, I don't have a
> strong preference.
That sounds like a much better thing to do.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-06 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-05 0:01 [PATCH] uart: fix race between uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown() Tycho Andersen
2018-06-05 3:59 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-06-06 21:42 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-06-28 12:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-29 10:24 ` [PATCH v2] " Tycho Andersen
2018-06-29 16:43 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-07-06 14:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-07-06 16:24 ` [PATCH v3] " Tycho Andersen
2018-07-06 16:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-07-06 18:39 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-07-06 20:48 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-07-06 21:22 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-07-11 16:07 ` [PATCH v4] " Tycho Andersen
2018-07-11 19:24 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-07-11 19:49 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-07-11 20:00 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-07-12 15:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-12 9:03 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-07-12 14:13 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-07-12 15:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-12 15:08 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-07-12 15:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-12 18:18 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-07-12 18:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-12 18:30 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-07-13 9:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-13 14:01 ` Tycho Andersen
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