pty: Fix buffer flush deadlock
The pty driver does not clear its write buffer when commanded. This is to avoid an apparent deadlock between parallel flushes from both pty ends; specifically when handling either BRK or INTR input. However, parallel flushes from this source is not possible since the pty master can never be set to BRKINT or ISIG. Parallel flushes from other sources are possible but these do not threaten deadlocks. Annotate the tty buffer mutex for lockdep to represent the nested tty_buffer locking which occurs when the pty slave is processing input (its buffer mutex held) and receives INTR or BRK and acquires the linked tty buffer mutex via tty_buffer_flush(). Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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