Prevent an O_NDELAY writer from blocking when a tty write is blocked by the tty atomic writer mutex

Without this a tty write could block if a previous blocking tty write was
in progress on the same tty and blocked by a line discipline or hardware
event.  Originally found and reported by Dave Johnson.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index bb4576085203..deaba9ec5004 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -338,6 +338,12 @@ extern struct tty_struct *get_current_tty(void);
 
 extern struct mutex tty_mutex;
 
+extern void tty_write_unlock(struct tty_struct *tty);
+extern int tty_write_lock(struct tty_struct *tty, int ndelay);
+#define tty_is_writelocked(tty)  (mutex_is_locked(&tty->atomic_write_lock))
+
+
+
 /* n_tty.c */
 extern struct tty_ldisc tty_ldisc_N_TTY;