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Johan Hovold d3ba126a22 Revert "tty_port: register tty ports with serdev bus" 
This reverts commit 8ee3fde047.

The new serdev bus hooked into the tty layer in
tty_port_register_device() by registering a serdev controller instead of
a tty device whenever a serdev client is present, and by deregistering
the controller in the tty-port destructor. This is broken in several
ways:

Firstly, it leads to a NULL-pointer dereference whenever a tty driver
later deregisters its devices as no corresponding character device will
exist.

Secondly, far from every tty driver uses tty-port refcounting (e.g.
serial core) so the serdev devices might never be deregistered or
deallocated.

Thirdly, deregistering at tty-port destruction is too late as the
underlying device and structures may be long gone by then. A port is not
released before an open tty device is closed, something which a
registered serdev client can prevent from ever happening. A driver
callback while the device is gone typically also leads to crashes.

Many tty drivers even keep their ports around until the driver is
unloaded (e.g. serial core), something which even if a late callback
never happens, leads to leaks if a device is unbound from its driver and
is later rebound.

The right solution here is to add a new tty_port_unregister_device()
helper and to never call tty_device_unregister() whenever the port has
been claimed by serdev, but since this requires modifying just about
every tty driver (and multiple subsystems) it will need to be done
incrementally.

Reverting the offending patch is the first step in fixing the broken
lifetime assumptions. A follow-up patch will add a new pair of
tty-device registration helpers, which a vetted tty driver can use to
support serdev (initially serial core). When every tty driver uses the
serdev helpers (at least for deregistration), we can add serdev
registration to tty_port_register_device() again.

Note that this also fixes another issue with serdev, which currently
allocates and registers a serdev controller for every tty device
registered using tty_port_device_register() only to immediately
deregister and deallocate it when the corresponding OF node or serdev
child node is missing. This should be addressed before enabling serdev
for hot-pluggable buses.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 		2017-05-18 16:41:49 +02:00
Documentation mm, docs: update memory.stat description with workingset* entries 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2017-05-13 10:20:02 -07:00
block Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-05-12 15:43:10 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
drivers Revert "tty_port: register tty ports with serdev bus" 2017-05-18 16:41:49 +02:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
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kernel gcov: support GCC 7.1 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
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samples char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
scripts Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
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sound sound fixes for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-12 12:10:38 -07:00
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Makefile Linux 4.12-rc1 2017-05-13 13:19:49 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.