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Linus Torvalds 202c4675c5 pty_write: don't do a tty_wakeup() when the buffers are full
Commit ac89a9174 ("pty: don't limit the writes to 'pty_space()' inside
'pty_write()'") removed the pty_space() checking, in order to let the
regular tty buffer code limit the buffering itself.

That was all good, but as a subtle side effect it meant that we'd be
doing a tty_wakeup() even in the case where the buffers were all filled
up, and didn't actually make any progress on the write.

Which sounds innocuous, but it interacts very badly with the ppp_async
code, which has an infinite loop in ppp_async_push() that tries to push
out data to the tty.  When we call tty_wakeup(), that loop ends up
thinking that progress was made (see the subtle interactions between
XMIT_WAKEUP and 'tty_stuffed' for details).  End result: one unhappy ppp
user.

Fixed by noticing when tty_insert_flip_string() didn't actually do
anything, and then not doing any more processing (including, very much
not calling tty_wakeup()).

Bisected-and-tested-by: Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.31)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-18 07:05:58 -07:00
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amba Merge branches 'arm', 'at91', 'bcmring', 'ep93xx', 'mach-types', 'misc' and 'w90x900' into devel 2009-09-12 12:01:34 +01:00
ata libata: Add pata_atp867x driver for Artop/Acard ATP867X controllers 2009-09-17 16:47:06 -04:00
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base Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev 2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
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bluetooth pcmcia: dtl1_cs: fix pcmcia_loop_config logic 2009-09-15 10:17:16 -07:00
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char pty_write: don't do a tty_wakeup() when the buffers are full 2009-09-18 07:05:58 -07:00
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dma at_hdmac: Rework suspend_late()/resume_early() 2009-09-14 20:27:00 +02:00
edac amd64_edac: check NB MCE bank enable on the current node properly 2009-09-16 13:05:46 +02:00
eisa
firewire driver model: constify attribute groups 2009-09-15 09:50:47 -07:00
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isdn isdn: convert to netdev_tx_t 2009-09-01 01:13:16 -07:00
leds leds: after setting inverted attribute, we must update the LED 2009-08-26 20:06:53 -07:00
lguest
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pci Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2009-09-16 07:49:54 -07:00
pcmcia Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pcmcia-2.6 2009-09-16 08:11:23 -07:00
platform hp-wmi: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops 2009-09-14 20:26:59 +02:00
pnp x86: Introduce GDT_ENTRY_INIT(), initialize bad_bios_desc statically 2009-08-10 11:10:52 +02:00
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pps pps: fix incorrect verdict check 2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
ps3 powerpc/ps3: Workaround for flash memory I/O error 2009-09-11 11:28:00 +10:00
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ssb ssb/sdio: fix printk format warnings 2009-09-16 16:21:00 -04:00
staging MIPS: Octeon: False positive timeout 2009-09-17 20:07:41 +02:00
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thermal thermal_sys: check get_temp return value 2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
uio uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices 2009-09-15 09:50:48 -07:00
usb debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI. 2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
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watchdog [WATCHDOG] ar7_wdt: fix path to ar7-specific headers 2009-08-15 13:05:01 +00:00
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