Re: [PATCH 5.10 245/530] tty: actually undefine superseded ASYNC flags

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Wed May 12 2021 - 12:19:44 EST


On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 04:45:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit d09845e98a05850a8094ea8fd6dd09a8e6824fff ]
>
> Some kernel-internal ASYNC flags have been superseded by tty-port flags
> and should no longer be used by kernel drivers.
>
> Fix the misspelled "__KERNEL__" compile guards which failed their sole
> purpose to break out-of-tree drivers that have not yet been updated.
>
> Fixes: 5c0517fefc92 ("tty: core: Undefine ASYNC_* flags superceded by TTY_PORT* flags")
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210407095208.31838-2-johan@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think this should be backported to any stable tree and the
stable tag was left out on purpose.

> ---
> include/uapi/linux/tty_flags.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/tty_flags.h b/include/uapi/linux/tty_flags.h
> index 900a32e63424..6a3ac496a56c 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/tty_flags.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/tty_flags.h
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
> * WARNING: These flags are no longer used and have been superceded by the
> * TTY_PORT_ flags in the iflags field (and not userspace-visible)
> */
> -#ifndef _KERNEL_
> +#ifndef __KERNEL__
> #define ASYNCB_INITIALIZED 31 /* Serial port was initialized */
> #define ASYNCB_SUSPENDED 30 /* Serial port is suspended */
> #define ASYNCB_NORMAL_ACTIVE 29 /* Normal device is active */
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
> #define ASYNC_SPD_WARP (ASYNC_SPD_HI|ASYNC_SPD_SHI)
> #define ASYNC_SPD_MASK (ASYNC_SPD_HI|ASYNC_SPD_VHI|ASYNC_SPD_SHI)
>
> -#ifndef _KERNEL_
> +#ifndef __KERNEL__
> /* These flags are no longer used (and were always masked from userspace) */
> #define ASYNC_INITIALIZED (1U << ASYNCB_INITIALIZED)
> #define ASYNC_NORMAL_ACTIVE (1U << ASYNCB_NORMAL_ACTIVE)

Johan