Re: Serial buffer memory leak
From: Paul Fulghum
Date: Wed Aug 08 2007 - 10:53:16 EST
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:28 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> The patch fixes the problem (at least under the test conditions that lead me
> to discover it in the first place). Thanks Alan.
It works here also, but I see a problem.
By deferring the flush, ioctl(TCFLSH) returns immediately
even though there is possibly still receive data being fed
to the ldisc.
If this is followed immediately by a read() then the
application gets unexpected (stale) data defeating the
purpose of the TCFLSH.
tty_buffer_flush() needs to wait for buf.flushpending to clear.
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Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd
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