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SubjectRe: [000/136] 2.6.31.2-stable review
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
>>
>> > Note from the -stable maintainer on this release:
>> >
>> > This release is big. Yeah, really big. There are a number of
>> > areas that needed some rework in order to get things back to
>> > working order. Like the tty layer. Hopefully everyone can now
>> > use their usb to serial devices again without oopsing the
>> > kernel
>>
>> The ftdi_sio driver still crashes and burns.
>
> What were you doing when it crashed? I tested the pl2303 device and it
> worked fine for me here, I don't have a ftdi_sio one :(

The patch that floated on the list earlier does fix the worst of the
symptoms.

Eric

From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: Remove tty->low_latency.

Fixes tty_flip_buffer_push being called from hard interrupt context with
low_latency set.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
---
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 4 ----
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
index 8fec5d4..22b72e8 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
@@ -1228,7 +1228,6 @@ static int set_serial_info(struct tty_struct *tty,
(new_serial.flags & ASYNC_FLAGS));
priv->custom_divisor = new_serial.custom_divisor;

- tty->low_latency = (priv->flags & ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY) ? 1 : 0;
write_latency_timer(port);

check_and_exit:
@@ -1699,9 +1698,6 @@ static int ftdi_open(struct tty_struct *tty,
priv->rx_bytes = 0;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->rx_lock, flags);

- if (tty)
- tty->low_latency = (priv->flags & ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY) ? 1 : 0;
-
write_latency_timer(port);

/* No error checking for this (will get errors later anyway) */
--
1.6.2.5

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