Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received"

This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c.

It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues.

It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can
cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless
work loop when the buffer fills up").

It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf()
function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code,
and didn't actually check for the error in the caller.

And it didn't actually work at all.  BenH bisected down odd tty behavior
to it:
  "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X
   server for me, possibly related to PTYs.  For example, cat'ing a
   large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a
   loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace
   data in the quoted bits further down).

   ...

   Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the
   flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because
   the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop
   forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer
   process that could have emptied the PTY."

which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a.

Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue.

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c b/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
index cac666314aef..cea56033b34c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ static unsigned int n_hdlc_tty_poll(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp,
                                     poll_table *wait);
 static int n_hdlc_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty);
 static void n_hdlc_tty_close(struct tty_struct *tty);
-static unsigned int n_hdlc_tty_receive(struct tty_struct *tty,
-                const __u8 *cp, char *fp, int count);
+static void n_hdlc_tty_receive(struct tty_struct *tty, const __u8 *cp,
+                               char *fp, int count);
 static void n_hdlc_tty_wakeup(struct tty_struct *tty);
 
 #define bset(p,b)       ((p)[(b) >> 5] |= (1 << ((b) & 0x1f)))
@@ -509,8 +509,8 @@ static void n_hdlc_tty_wakeup(struct tty_struct *tty)
  * Called by tty low level driver when receive data is available. Data is
  * interpreted as one HDLC frame.
  */
-static unsigned int n_hdlc_tty_receive(struct tty_struct *tty,
-                const __u8 *data, char *flags, int count)
+static void n_hdlc_tty_receive(struct tty_struct *tty, const __u8 *data,
+                               char *flags, int count)
 {
         register struct n_hdlc *n_hdlc = tty2n_hdlc (tty);
         register struct n_hdlc_buf *buf;
@@ -521,20 +521,20 @@ static unsigned int n_hdlc_tty_receive(struct tty_struct *tty,
                 
         /* This can happen if stuff comes in on the backup tty */
         if (!n_hdlc || tty != n_hdlc->tty)
-                return -ENODEV;
+                return;
                 
         /* verify line is using HDLC discipline */
         if (n_hdlc->magic != HDLC_MAGIC) {
                 printk("%s(%d) line not using HDLC discipline\n",
                         __FILE__,__LINE__);
-                return -EINVAL;
+                return;
         }
         
         if ( count>maxframe ) {
                 if (debuglevel >= DEBUG_LEVEL_INFO)     
                         printk("%s(%d) rx count>maxframesize, data discarded\n",
                                __FILE__,__LINE__);
-                return -EINVAL;
+                return;
         }
 
         /* get a free HDLC buffer */    
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ static unsigned int n_hdlc_tty_receive(struct tty_struct *tty,
                 if (debuglevel >= DEBUG_LEVEL_INFO)     
                         printk("%s(%d) no more rx buffers, data discarded\n",
                                __FILE__,__LINE__);
-                return -EINVAL;
+                return;
         }
                 
         /* copy received data to HDLC buffer */
@@ -565,8 +565,6 @@ static unsigned int n_hdlc_tty_receive(struct tty_struct *tty,
         if (n_hdlc->tty->fasync != NULL)
                 kill_fasync (&n_hdlc->tty->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
 
-        return count;
-
 }       /* end of n_hdlc_tty_receive() */
 
 /**