TTY: tty_driver, document tty->ops->shutdown limitation

Note that tty->ops->shutdown is called from whatever context the user
drops the last tty reference from. E.g. if one takes a reference in
an ISR, tty close happens on other CPU and the final tty put is from
the ISR, tty->ops->shutdown will be called from that hard irq context.

We would have a problem in vt if we start using tty refcounting from
other contexts than user there. It is because vt's shutdown uses
mutexes. This is yet to be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
index e064f1704e20..6e6dbb7447b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
  *	Note that tty_shutdown() is not called if ops->shutdown is defined.
  *	This means one is responsible to take care of calling ops->remove (e.g.
  *	via tty_driver_remove_tty) and releasing tty->termios.
+ *	Note that this hook may be called from *all* the contexts where one
+ *	uses tty refcounting (e.g. tty_port_tty_get).
  *
  *
  * void (*cleanup)(struct tty_struct * tty);