tty: Correct tty buffer flush.
commit 64325a3b upstream. The root of problem is carelessly zeroing pointer(in function __tty_buffer_flush()), when another thread can use it. It can be cause of "NULL pointer dereference". Main idea of the patch, this is never free last (struct tty_buffer) in the active buffer. Only flush the data for ldisc(buf->head->read = buf->head->commit). At that moment driver can collect(write) data in buffer without conflict. It is repeat behavior of flush_to_ldisc(), only without feeding data to ldisc. Signed-off-by: Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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