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tty: handle the case where we cannot restore a line discipline

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Historically the N_TTY driver could never fail but this has become broken over
time. Rather than trying to rewrite half the ldisc layer to fix the breakage
introduce a second level of fallback with an N_NULL ldisc which cannot fail,
and thus restore the guarantees required by the ldisc layer.

We still try and fail to N_TTY first. It's much more useful to find yourself
back in your old ldisc (first attempt) or in N_TTY (second attempt), and while
I'm not aware of any code out there that makes those assumptions it's good to
drive(r) defensively.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Alan Cox
2017-06-02 13:49:30 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 47f58e32a2
commit 8a8dabf2dd
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@@ -36,5 +36,6 @@
#define N_TRACEROUTER 24 /* Trace data routing for MIPI P1149.7 */
#define N_NCI 25 /* NFC NCI UART */
#define N_SPEAKUP 26 /* Speakup communication with synths */
#define N_NULL 27 /* Null ldisc used for error handling */
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_TTY_H */