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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Staging: speakup: Update __speakup_paste_selection() tty (ab)usage to match vt</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T18:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-19T00:03:06+00:00</published>
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commit 28a821c306889b9f2c3fff49abedc9b2c743eb73 upstream.

This function is largely a duplicate of paste_selection() in
drivers/tty/vt/selection.c, but with its own selection state.  The
speakup selection mechanism should really be merged with vt.

For now, apply the changes from 'TTY: vt, fix paste_selection ldisc
handling', 'tty: Make ldisc input flow control concurrency-friendly',
and 'tty: Fix unsafe vt paste_selection()'.

References: https://bugs.debian.org/735202
References: https://bugs.debian.org/744015
Reported-by: Paul Gevers &lt;elbrus@debian.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Jarek Czekalski &lt;jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 28a821c306889b9f2c3fff49abedc9b2c743eb73 upstream.

This function is largely a duplicate of paste_selection() in
drivers/tty/vt/selection.c, but with its own selection state.  The
speakup selection mechanism should really be merged with vt.

For now, apply the changes from 'TTY: vt, fix paste_selection ldisc
handling', 'tty: Make ldisc input flow control concurrency-friendly',
and 'tty: Fix unsafe vt paste_selection()'.

References: https://bugs.debian.org/735202
References: https://bugs.debian.org/744015
Reported-by: Paul Gevers &lt;elbrus@debian.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Jarek Czekalski &lt;jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>8250_core: Fix unwanted TX chars write</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T17:28:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Loic Poulain</name>
<email>loic.poulain@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-24T09:38:56+00:00</published>
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commit b08c9c317e3f7764a91d522cd031639ba42b98cc upstream.

On transmit-hold-register empty, serial8250_tx_chars
should be called only if we don't use DMA.
DMA has its own tx cycle.

Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain &lt;loic.poulain@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus &lt;heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b08c9c317e3f7764a91d522cd031639ba42b98cc upstream.

On transmit-hold-register empty, serial8250_tx_chars
should be called only if we don't use DMA.
DMA has its own tx cycle.

Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain &lt;loic.poulain@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus &lt;heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: 8250: Fix thread unsafe __dma_tx_complete function</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T17:28:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Loic Poulain</name>
<email>loic.poulain@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-24T09:34:48+00:00</published>
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commit f8fd1b0350d3a4581125f5eda6528f5a2c5f9183 upstream.

__dma_tx_complete is not protected against concurrent
call of serial8250_tx_dma. it can lead to circular tail
index corruption or parallel call of serial_tx_dma on the
same data portion.

This patch fixes this issue by holding the port lock.

Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain &lt;loic.poulain@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus &lt;heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f8fd1b0350d3a4581125f5eda6528f5a2c5f9183 upstream.

__dma_tx_complete is not protected against concurrent
call of serial8250_tx_dma. it can lead to circular tail
index corruption or parallel call of serial_tx_dma on the
same data portion.

This patch fixes this issue by holding the port lock.

Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain &lt;loic.poulain@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus &lt;heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: omap: Fix missing pm_runtime_resume handling by simplifying code</title>
<updated>2014-05-31T20:20:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Lindgren</name>
<email>tony@atomide.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-25T18:48:47+00:00</published>
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commit d758c9c1b36b4d9a141c2146c70398d756167ed1 upstream.

The lack of pm_runtime_resume handling for the device state leads into
device wake-up interrupts not working after a while for runtime PM.

Also, serial-omap is confused about the use of device_may_wakeup.
The checks for device_may_wakeup should only be done for suspend and
resume, not for pm_runtime_suspend and pm_runtime_resume. The wake-up
events for PM runtime should always be enabled.

The lack of pm_runtime_resume handling leads into device wake-up
interrupts not working after a while for runtime PM.

Rather than try to patch over the issue of adding complex tests to
the pm_runtime_resume, let's fix the issues properly:

1. Make serial_omap_enable_wakeup deal with all internal PM state
   handling so we don't need to test for up-&gt;wakeups_enabled elsewhere.

   Later on once omap3 boots in device tree only mode we can also
   remove the up-&gt;wakeups_enabled flag and rely on the wake-up
   interrupt enable/disable state alone.

2. Do the device_may_wakeup checks in suspend and resume only,
   for runtime PM the wake-up events need to be always enabled.

3. Finally just call serial_omap_enable_wakeup and make sure we
   call it also in pm_runtime_resume.

4. Note that we also have to use disable_irq_nosync as serial_omap_irq
   calls pm_runtime_get_sync.

Fixes: 2a0b965cfb6e (serial: omap: Add support for optional wake-up)
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d758c9c1b36b4d9a141c2146c70398d756167ed1 upstream.

The lack of pm_runtime_resume handling for the device state leads into
device wake-up interrupts not working after a while for runtime PM.

Also, serial-omap is confused about the use of device_may_wakeup.
The checks for device_may_wakeup should only be done for suspend and
resume, not for pm_runtime_suspend and pm_runtime_resume. The wake-up
events for PM runtime should always be enabled.

The lack of pm_runtime_resume handling leads into device wake-up
interrupts not working after a while for runtime PM.

Rather than try to patch over the issue of adding complex tests to
the pm_runtime_resume, let's fix the issues properly:

1. Make serial_omap_enable_wakeup deal with all internal PM state
   handling so we don't need to test for up-&gt;wakeups_enabled elsewhere.

   Later on once omap3 boots in device tree only mode we can also
   remove the up-&gt;wakeups_enabled flag and rely on the wake-up
   interrupt enable/disable state alone.

2. Do the device_may_wakeup checks in suspend and resume only,
   for runtime PM the wake-up events need to be always enabled.

3. Finally just call serial_omap_enable_wakeup and make sure we
   call it also in pm_runtime_resume.

4. Note that we also have to use disable_irq_nosync as serial_omap_irq
   calls pm_runtime_get_sync.

Fixes: 2a0b965cfb6e (serial: omap: Add support for optional wake-up)
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>n_tty: Fix n_tty_write crash when echoing in raw mode</title>
<updated>2014-05-13T11:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-03T12:04:59+00:00</published>
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commit 4291086b1f081b869c6d79e5b7441633dc3ace00 upstream.

The tty atomic_write_lock does not provide an exclusion guarantee for
the tty driver if the termios settings are LECHO &amp; !OPOST.  And since
it is unexpected and not allowed to call TTY buffer helpers like
tty_insert_flip_string concurrently, this may lead to crashes when
concurrect writers call pty_write. In that case the following two
writers:
* the ECHOing from a workqueue and
* pty_write from the process
race and can overflow the corresponding TTY buffer like follows.

If we look into tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag, there is:
  int space = __tty_buffer_request_room(port, goal, flags);
  struct tty_buffer *tb = port-&gt;buf.tail;
  ...
  memcpy(char_buf_ptr(tb, tb-&gt;used), chars, space);
  ...
  tb-&gt;used += space;

so the race of the two can result in something like this:
              A                                B
__tty_buffer_request_room
                                  __tty_buffer_request_room
memcpy(buf(tb-&gt;used), ...)
tb-&gt;used += space;
                                  memcpy(buf(tb-&gt;used), ...) -&gt;BOOM

B's memcpy is past the tty_buffer due to the previous A's tb-&gt;used
increment.

Since the N_TTY line discipline input processing can output
concurrently with a tty write, obtain the N_TTY ldisc output_lock to
serialize echo output with normal tty writes.  This ensures the tty
buffer helper tty_insert_flip_string is not called concurrently and
everything is fine.

Note that this is nicely reproducible by an ordinary user using
forkpty and some setup around that (raw termios + ECHO). And it is
present in kernels at least after commit
d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc (pty: Rework the pty layer to
use the normal buffering logic) in 2.6.31-rc3.

js: add more info to the commit log
js: switch to bool
js: lock unconditionally
js: lock only the tty-&gt;ops-&gt;write call

References: CVE-2014-0196
Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4291086b1f081b869c6d79e5b7441633dc3ace00 upstream.

The tty atomic_write_lock does not provide an exclusion guarantee for
the tty driver if the termios settings are LECHO &amp; !OPOST.  And since
it is unexpected and not allowed to call TTY buffer helpers like
tty_insert_flip_string concurrently, this may lead to crashes when
concurrect writers call pty_write. In that case the following two
writers:
* the ECHOing from a workqueue and
* pty_write from the process
race and can overflow the corresponding TTY buffer like follows.

If we look into tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag, there is:
  int space = __tty_buffer_request_room(port, goal, flags);
  struct tty_buffer *tb = port-&gt;buf.tail;
  ...
  memcpy(char_buf_ptr(tb, tb-&gt;used), chars, space);
  ...
  tb-&gt;used += space;

so the race of the two can result in something like this:
              A                                B
__tty_buffer_request_room
                                  __tty_buffer_request_room
memcpy(buf(tb-&gt;used), ...)
tb-&gt;used += space;
                                  memcpy(buf(tb-&gt;used), ...) -&gt;BOOM

B's memcpy is past the tty_buffer due to the previous A's tb-&gt;used
increment.

Since the N_TTY line discipline input processing can output
concurrently with a tty write, obtain the N_TTY ldisc output_lock to
serialize echo output with normal tty writes.  This ensures the tty
buffer helper tty_insert_flip_string is not called concurrently and
everything is fine.

Note that this is nicely reproducible by an ordinary user using
forkpty and some setup around that (raw termios + ECHO). And it is
present in kernels at least after commit
d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc (pty: Rework the pty layer to
use the normal buffering logic) in 2.6.31-rc3.

js: add more info to the commit log
js: switch to bool
js: lock unconditionally
js: lock only the tty-&gt;ops-&gt;write call

References: CVE-2014-0196
Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Fix lockless tty buffer race</title>
<updated>2014-05-13T11:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-02T14:56:12+00:00</published>
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commit 62a0d8d7c2b29f92850e4ee3c38e5dfd936e92b2 upstream.

Commit 6a20dbd6caa2358716136144bf524331d70b1e03,
"tty: Fix race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room and flush_to_ldisc"
correctly identifies an unsafe race condition between
__tty_buffer_request_room() and flush_to_ldisc(), where the consumer
flush_to_ldisc() prematurely advances the head before consuming the
last of the data committed. For example:

           CPU 0                     |            CPU 1
__tty_buffer_request_room            | flush_to_ldisc
  ...                                |   ...
                                     |   count = head-&gt;commit - head-&gt;read
  n = tty_buffer_alloc()             |
  b-&gt;commit = b-&gt;used                |
  b-&gt;next = n                        |
                                     |   if (!count)                /* T */
                                     |     if (head-&gt;next == NULL)  /* F */
                                     |     buf-&gt;head = head-&gt;next

In this case, buf-&gt;head has been advanced but head-&gt;commit may have
been updated with a new value.

Instead of reintroducing an unnecessary lock, fix the race locklessly.
Read the commit-next pair in the reverse order of writing, which guarantees
the commit value read is the latest value written if the head is
advancing.

Reported-by: Manfred Schlaegl &lt;manfred.schlaegl@gmx.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 62a0d8d7c2b29f92850e4ee3c38e5dfd936e92b2 upstream.

Commit 6a20dbd6caa2358716136144bf524331d70b1e03,
"tty: Fix race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room and flush_to_ldisc"
correctly identifies an unsafe race condition between
__tty_buffer_request_room() and flush_to_ldisc(), where the consumer
flush_to_ldisc() prematurely advances the head before consuming the
last of the data committed. For example:

           CPU 0                     |            CPU 1
__tty_buffer_request_room            | flush_to_ldisc
  ...                                |   ...
                                     |   count = head-&gt;commit - head-&gt;read
  n = tty_buffer_alloc()             |
  b-&gt;commit = b-&gt;used                |
  b-&gt;next = n                        |
                                     |   if (!count)                /* T */
                                     |     if (head-&gt;next == NULL)  /* F */
                                     |     buf-&gt;head = head-&gt;next

In this case, buf-&gt;head has been advanced but head-&gt;commit may have
been updated with a new value.

Instead of reintroducing an unnecessary lock, fix the race locklessly.
Read the commit-next pair in the reverse order of writing, which guarantees
the commit value read is the latest value written if the head is
advancing.

Reported-by: Manfred Schlaegl &lt;manfred.schlaegl@gmx.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: serial: 8250_core.c Bug fix for Exar chips.</title>
<updated>2014-05-13T11:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Welling</name>
<email>mwelling@ieee.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-26T00:27:48+00:00</published>
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commit b790f210fe8423eff881b2a8a93ba5dbc45534d0 upstream.

The sleep function was updated to put the serial port to sleep only when necessary.
This appears to resolve the errant behavior of the driver as described in
Kernel Bug 61961 – "My Exar Corp. XR17C/D152 Dual PCI UART modem does not
work with 3.8.0".

Signed-off-by: Michael Welling &lt;mwelling@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b790f210fe8423eff881b2a8a93ba5dbc45534d0 upstream.

The sleep function was updated to put the serial port to sleep only when necessary.
This appears to resolve the errant behavior of the driver as described in
Kernel Bug 61961 – "My Exar Corp. XR17C/D152 Dual PCI UART modem does not
work with 3.8.0".

Signed-off-by: Michael Welling &lt;mwelling@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/tty/hvc: don't free hvc_console_setup after init</title>
<updated>2014-05-13T11:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomoki Sekiyama</name>
<email>tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-02T22:58:24+00:00</published>
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commit 501fed45b7e8836ee9373f4d31e2d85e3db6103a upstream.

When 'console=hvc0' is specified to the kernel parameter in x86 KVM guest,
hvc console is setup within a kthread. However, that will cause SEGV
and the boot will fail when the driver is builtin to the kernel,
because currently hvc_console_setup() is annotated with '__init'. This
patch removes '__init' to boot the guest successfully with 'console=hvc0'.

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama &lt;tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 501fed45b7e8836ee9373f4d31e2d85e3db6103a upstream.

When 'console=hvc0' is specified to the kernel parameter in x86 KVM guest,
hvc console is setup within a kthread. However, that will cause SEGV
and the boot will fail when the driver is builtin to the kernel,
because currently hvc_console_setup() is annotated with '__init'. This
patch removes '__init' to boot the guest successfully with 'console=hvc0'.

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama &lt;tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hvc: ensure hvc_init is only ever called once in hvc_console.c</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T14:59:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-14T21:03:37+00:00</published>
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commit f76a1cbed18c86e2d192455f0daebb48458965f3 upstream.

Commit 3e6c6f630a5282df8f3393a59f10eb9c56536d23 ("Delay creation of
khcvd thread") moved the call of hvc_init from being a device_initcall
into hvc_alloc, and used a non-null hvc_driver as indication of whether
hvc_init had already been called.

The problem with this is that hvc_driver is only assigned a value
at the bottom of hvc_init, and so there is a window where multiple
hvc_alloc calls can be in progress at the same time and hence try
and call hvc_init multiple times.  Previously the use of device_init
guaranteed that hvc_init was only called once.

This manifests itself as sporadic instances of two hvc_init calls
racing each other, and with the loser of the race getting -EBUSY
from tty_register_driver() and hence that virtual console fails:

    Couldn't register hvc console driver
    virtio-ports vport0p1: error -16 allocating hvc for port

Here we add an atomic_t to guarantee we'll never run hvc_init twice.

Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 3e6c6f630a52 ("Delay creation of khcvd thread")
Reported-by: Jim Somerville &lt;Jim.Somerville@windriver.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jim Somerville &lt;Jim.Somerville@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f76a1cbed18c86e2d192455f0daebb48458965f3 upstream.

Commit 3e6c6f630a5282df8f3393a59f10eb9c56536d23 ("Delay creation of
khcvd thread") moved the call of hvc_init from being a device_initcall
into hvc_alloc, and used a non-null hvc_driver as indication of whether
hvc_init had already been called.

The problem with this is that hvc_driver is only assigned a value
at the bottom of hvc_init, and so there is a window where multiple
hvc_alloc calls can be in progress at the same time and hence try
and call hvc_init multiple times.  Previously the use of device_init
guaranteed that hvc_init was only called once.

This manifests itself as sporadic instances of two hvc_init calls
racing each other, and with the loser of the race getting -EBUSY
from tty_register_driver() and hence that virtual console fails:

    Couldn't register hvc console driver
    virtio-ports vport0p1: error -16 allocating hvc for port

Here we add an atomic_t to guarantee we'll never run hvc_init twice.

Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 3e6c6f630a52 ("Delay creation of khcvd thread")
Reported-by: Jim Somerville &lt;Jim.Somerville@windriver.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jim Somerville &lt;Jim.Somerville@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>tty: Fix low_latency BUG</title>
<updated>2014-04-27T00:19:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-22T12:31:21+00:00</published>
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commit a9c3f68f3cd8d55f809fbdb0c138ed061ea1bd25 upstream.

The user-settable knob, low_latency, has been the source of
several BUG reports which stem from flush_to_ldisc() running
in interrupt context. Since 3.12, which added several sleeping
locks (termios_rwsem and buf-&gt;lock) to the input processing path,
the frequency of these BUG reports has increased.

Note that changes in 3.12 did not introduce this regression;
sleeping locks were first added to the input processing path
with the removal of the BKL from N_TTY in commit
a88a69c91256418c5907c2f1f8a0ec0a36f9e6cc,
'n_tty: Fix loss of echoed characters and remove bkl from n_tty'
and later in commit 38db89799bdf11625a831c5af33938dcb11908b6,
'tty: throttling race fix'. Since those changes, executing
flush_to_ldisc() in interrupt_context (ie, low_latency set), is unsafe.

However, since most devices do not validate if the low_latency
setting is appropriate for the context (process or interrupt) in
which they receive data, some reports are due to misconfiguration.
Further, serial dma devices for which dma fails, resort to
interrupt receiving as a backup without resetting low_latency.

Historically, low_latency was used to force wake-up the reading
process rather than wait for the next scheduler tick. The
effect was to trim multiple milliseconds of latency from
when the process would receive new data.

Recent tests [1] have shown that the reading process now receives
data with only 10's of microseconds latency without low_latency set.

Remove the low_latency rx steering from tty_flip_buffer_push();
however, leave the knob as an optional hint to drivers that can
tune their rx fifos and such like. Cleanup stale code comments
regarding low_latency.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/20/434

"Yay.. thats an annoying historical pain in the butt gone."
	-- Alan Cox

Reported-by: Beat Bolli &lt;bbolli@ewanet.ch&gt;
Reported-by: Pavel Roskin &lt;proski@gnu.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Grant Edwards &lt;grant.b.edwards@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hal Murray &lt;murray+fedora@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a9c3f68f3cd8d55f809fbdb0c138ed061ea1bd25 upstream.

The user-settable knob, low_latency, has been the source of
several BUG reports which stem from flush_to_ldisc() running
in interrupt context. Since 3.12, which added several sleeping
locks (termios_rwsem and buf-&gt;lock) to the input processing path,
the frequency of these BUG reports has increased.

Note that changes in 3.12 did not introduce this regression;
sleeping locks were first added to the input processing path
with the removal of the BKL from N_TTY in commit
a88a69c91256418c5907c2f1f8a0ec0a36f9e6cc,
'n_tty: Fix loss of echoed characters and remove bkl from n_tty'
and later in commit 38db89799bdf11625a831c5af33938dcb11908b6,
'tty: throttling race fix'. Since those changes, executing
flush_to_ldisc() in interrupt_context (ie, low_latency set), is unsafe.

However, since most devices do not validate if the low_latency
setting is appropriate for the context (process or interrupt) in
which they receive data, some reports are due to misconfiguration.
Further, serial dma devices for which dma fails, resort to
interrupt receiving as a backup without resetting low_latency.

Historically, low_latency was used to force wake-up the reading
process rather than wait for the next scheduler tick. The
effect was to trim multiple milliseconds of latency from
when the process would receive new data.

Recent tests [1] have shown that the reading process now receives
data with only 10's of microseconds latency without low_latency set.

Remove the low_latency rx steering from tty_flip_buffer_push();
however, leave the knob as an optional hint to drivers that can
tune their rx fifos and such like. Cleanup stale code comments
regarding low_latency.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/20/434

"Yay.. thats an annoying historical pain in the butt gone."
	-- Alan Cox

Reported-by: Beat Bolli &lt;bbolli@ewanet.ch&gt;
Reported-by: Pavel Roskin &lt;proski@gnu.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Grant Edwards &lt;grant.b.edwards@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hal Murray &lt;murray+fedora@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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