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authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>2009-11-18 14:12:58 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-11-30 16:38:25 -0800
commit8627b96dd80dca440d91fbb1ec733be25912d0dd (patch)
treeb0b534e46c6d8ba93a8183de4abfc1cdd0323a38 /drivers
parenta8a84540eb3fd0493f250dc1c513bef6810a50fd (diff)
downloadlinux-8627b96dd80dca440d91fbb1ec733be25912d0dd.tar.gz
tty_port: handle the nonblocking open of a dead port corner case
Some drivers allow O_NDELAY of a dead port (eg for setserial to work). In that
situation we must not try to raise the carrier.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_port.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_port.c b/drivers/char/tty_port.c
index 2e8552dc5eda..c63f3d33914a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_port.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_port.c
@@ -219,8 +219,11 @@ int tty_port_block_til_ready(struct tty_port *port,
 
 	/* if non-blocking mode is set we can pass directly to open unless
 	   the port has just hung up or is in another error state */
-	if ((filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) ||
-			(tty->flags & (1 << TTY_IO_ERROR))) {
+	if (tty->flags & (1 << TTY_IO_ERROR)) {
+		port->flags |= ASYNC_NORMAL_ACTIVE;
+		return 0;
+	}
+	if (filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
 		/* Indicate we are open */
 		if (tty->termios->c_cflag & CBAUD)
 			tty_port_raise_dtr_rts(port);