linux.git/drivers/tty, branch v3.9.8

tty: Fix transient pty write() EIO

2013-06-27T17:39:09+00:00

commit 7c61c3d8f44d5d822f758754287af644307b4af9 upstream.

Commit 699390354da6c258b65bf8fa79cfd5feaede50b6
('pty: Ignore slave pty close() if never successfully opened')
introduced a bug with ptys whereby a write() in parallel with an
open() on an existing pty could mistakenly indicate an I/O error.

Only indicate an I/O error if the condition on open() actually exists.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley 
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

parisc: fix serial ports on C8000 workstation

2013-06-27T17:38:43+00:00

commit 9a66d1869d90f13fbaf83dcce5b1aeec86fbc699 upstream.

The C8000 workstation (64 bit kernel only) has a somewhat different
serial port configuration than other models.
Thomas Bogendoerfer sent a patch to fix this in September 2010, which
was now minimally modified by me.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: Fix tty miss restart after we turn off flow-control

2013-06-07T19:52:25+00:00

commit dab73b4eb9ef924a2b90dab84e539076d82b256f upstream.

I meet emacs hang in start if I do the operation below:
  1: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
  2: emacs BigFile
  3: Press CTRL-S follow 2 immediately

Then emacs hang on, CTRL-Q can't resume, the terminal
hang on, you can do nothing with this terminal except
close it.

The reason is before emacs takeover control the tty,
we use CTRL-S to XOFF it. Then when emacs takeover the
control, it may don't use the flow-control, so emacs hang.
This patch fix it.

This patch will fix a kind of strange tty relation hang problem,
I believe I meet it with vim in ssh, and also see below bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465823

Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three

2013-05-08T03:33:07+00:00

commit b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde upstream.

We first tried to avoid updating atime/mtime entirely (commit
b0de59b5733d: "TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write"), and then
limited it to only update it occasionally (commit 37b7f3c76595: "TTY:
fix atime/mtime regression"), but it turns out that this was both
insufficient and overkill.

It was insufficient because we let people attach to the shared ptmx node
to see activity without even reading atime/mtime, and it was overkill
because the "only once a minute" means that you can't really tell an
idle person from an active one with 'w'.

So this tries to fix the problem properly.  It marks the shared ptmx
node as un-notifiable, and it lowers the "only once a minute" to a few
seconds instead - still long enough that you can't time individual
keystrokes, but short enough that you can tell whether somebody is
active or not.

Reported-by: Simon Kirby 
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial_core.c: add put_device() after device_find_child()

2013-05-08T03:33:07+00:00

commit 5a65dcc04cda41f4122aacc37a5a348454645399 upstream.

The serial core uses device_find_child() but does not drop the reference to
the retrieved child after using it. This patch add the missing put_device().

What I have done to test this issue.

I used a machine with an AMBA PL011 serial driver. I tested the patch on
next-20120408 because the last branch [next-20120415] does not boot on this
board.

For test purpose, I added some pr_info() messages to print the refcount
after device_find_child() (lines: 1937,2009), and after put_device()
(lines: 1947, 2021).

Boot the machine *without* put_device(). Then:

echo reboot > /sys/power/disk
echo disk > /sys/power/state
[   87.058575] uart_suspend_port:1937 refcount 4
[   87.058582] uart_suspend_port:1947 refcount 4
[   87.098083] uart_resume_port:2009refcount 5
[   87.098088] uart_resume_port:2021 refcount 5

echo disk > /sys/power/state
[  103.055574] uart_suspend_port:1937 refcount 6
[  103.055580] uart_suspend_port:1947 refcount 6
[  103.095322] uart_resume_port:2009 refcount 7
[  103.095327] uart_resume_port:2021 refcount 7

echo disk > /sys/power/state
[  252.459580] uart_suspend_port:1937 refcount 8
[  252.459586] uart_suspend_port:1947 refcount 8
[  252.499611] uart_resume_port:2009 refcount 9
[  252.499616] uart_resume_port:2021 refcount 9

The refcount continuously increased.

Boot the machine *with* this patch. Then:

echo reboot > /sys/power/disk
echo disk > /sys/power/state
[  159.333559] uart_suspend_port:1937 refcount 4
[  159.333566] uart_suspend_port:1947 refcount 3
[  159.372751] uart_resume_port:2009 refcount 4
[  159.372755] uart_resume_port:2021 refcount 3

echo disk > /sys/power/state
[  185.713614] uart_suspend_port:1937 refcount 4
[  185.713621] uart_suspend_port:1947 refcount 3
[  185.752935] uart_resume_port:2009 refcount 4
[  185.752940] uart_resume_port:2021 refcount 3

echo disk > /sys/power/state
[  207.458584] uart_suspend_port:1937 refcount 4
[  207.458591] uart_suspend_port:1947 refcount 3
[  207.498598] uart_resume_port:2009 refcount 4
[  207.498605] uart_resume_port:2021 refcount 3

The refcount correctly handled.

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: fix atime/mtime regression

2013-04-26T14:59:23+00:00

In commit b0de59b5733d ("TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write")
we removed timestamps from tty inodes to fix a security issue and waited
if something breaks.  Well, 'w', the utility to find out logged users
and their inactivity time broke.  It shows that users are inactive since
the time they logged in.

To revert to the old behaviour while still preventing attackers to
guess the password length, we update the timestamps in one-minute
intervals by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tty: mxser: fix cycle termination condition in mxser_probe() and mxser_module_init()

2013-04-08T18:30:04+00:00

There is a bug in resources deallocation code in mxser_probe() and
mxser_module_init().  As soon as variable 'i' is unsigned int, cycle
termination condition i >= 0 is always true.  The patch fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov 
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "tty/8250_pnp: serial port detection regression since v3.7"

2013-04-08T18:30:04+00:00

This reverts commit 77e372a3d82e5e4878ce1962207edd766773cc76.

Checking for disabled resources board breaks detection pnp on another
board "AMI UEFI implementation (Version: 0406 Release Date: 06/06/2012)".
I'm working with the reporter of the original bug to write and test
a better fix.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928246

Signed-off-by: Sean Young 
Cc: stable 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

OMAP/serial: Revert bad fix of Rx FIFO threshold granularity

2013-04-03T20:25:11+00:00

Partially reverts 1776fd059c40907297d6c26c51876575d63fd9e2
that introduced regression reported by Paul Walmsley.

This commit restores setting granularity in SCR register
and adds note about comments below being inconsistent with
actual code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Pelykh 
Tested-by: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Kevin Hilman 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'tty-3.9-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2013-03-28T22:53:33+00:00

Pull TTY/serial fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here are some tty/serial driver fixes for 3.9.

  The big thing here is the fix for the huge mess we caused renaming the
  8250 driver accidentally in the 3.7 kernel release, without realizing
  that there were users of the module options that suddenly broke.  This
  is now resolved, and, to top the injury off, we have a backwards-
  compatible option for those users who got used to the new name since
  3.7.  Ugh, sorry about that.

  Other than that, some other minor fixes for issues that have been
  reported by users."

* tag 'tty-3.9-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  Xilinx: ARM: UART: clear pending irqs before enabling irqs
  TTY: 8250, deprecated 8250_core.* options
  TTY: 8250, revert module name change
  serial: 8250_pci: Add WCH CH352 quirk to avoid Xscale detection
  tty: atmel_serial_probe(): index of atmel_ports[] fix