Re: [PATCH] USB: cdc-acm: Prevent data loss when filling tty buffer.

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue Mar 22 2011 - 03:43:10 EST


Am Montag, 21. März 2011, 16:52:25 schrieb Toby Gray:
> When sending large quantities of data through a CDC ACM channel it is possible
> for data to be lost when attempting to copy the data to the tty buffer. This
> occurs due to the return value from tty_insert_flip_string not being checked.
>
> This patch adds checking for how many bytes have been inserted into the tty
> buffer and returns any remaining bytes back to the filled read buffer list.
>

Have you tested whether the driver recovers from running out of buffers?
Other than that it is looking good to me.

Regards
Oliver
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