History log of /linux-master/drivers/tty/ttynull.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 95713967 10-Aug-2023 Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>

tty: make tty_operations::write()'s count size_t

Unify with the rest of the code. Use size_t for counts and ssize_t for
retval.

Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-30-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 69851e4a 10-Aug-2023 Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>

tty: propagate u8 data to tty_operations::write()

Data are now typed as u8. Propagate this change to
tty_operations::write().

Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Taprogge <jens.taprogge@taprogge.org>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Lin <dtwlin@gmail.com>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Cc: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@foss.st.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-28-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 9f90a4dd 23-Jul-2021 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>

tty: drop put_tty_driver

put_tty_driver() is an alias for tty_driver_kref_put(). There is no need
for two exported identical functions, therefore switch all users of
old put_tty_driver() to new tty_driver_kref_put() and remove the former
for good.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Cc: Jens Taprogge <jens.taprogge@taprogge.org>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Lin <dtwlin@gmail.com>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210723074317.32690-8-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 03b3b1a2 05-May-2021 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>

tty: make tty_operations::write_room return uint

Line disciplines expect a positive value or zero returned from
tty->ops->write_room (invoked by tty_write_room). So make this
assumption explicit by using unsigned int as a return value. Both of
tty->ops->write_room and tty_write_room.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> # xtensa
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Cc: Jens Taprogge <jens.taprogge@taprogge.org>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Lin <dtwlin@gmail.com>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505091928.22010-23-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# a91bd622 07-Jan-2021 Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Revert "init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console"

This reverts commit 757055ae8dedf5333af17b3b5b4b70ba9bc9da4e.

The commit caused that ttynull was used as the default console
on several systems[1][2][3]. As a result, the console was
blank even when a better alternative existed.

It happened when there was no console configured
on the command line and ttynull_init() was the first initcall
calling register_console().

Or it happened when /dev/ did not exist when console_on_rootfs()
was called. It was not able to open /dev/console even though
a console driver was registered. It tried to add ttynull console
but it obviously did not help. But ttynull became the preferred
console and was used by /dev/console when it was available later.

The commit tried to fix a historical problem that have been there
for ages. The primary motivation was the commit 3cffa06aeef7ece30f6
("printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console=""
or console=null"). It provided a clean solution for a workaround
that was widely used and worked only by chance.

This revert causes that the console="" or console=null command line
options will again work only by chance. These options will cause that
a particular console will be preferred and the default (tty) ones
will not get enabled. There will be no console registered at
all. As a result there won't be stdin, stdout, and stderr for
the init process. But it worked exactly this way even before.

The proper solution has to fulfill many conditions:

+ Register ttynull only when explicitly required or as
the ultimate fallback.

+ ttynull should get associated with /dev/console but it must
not become preferred console when used as a fallback.
Especially, it must still be possible to replace it
by a better console later.

Such a change requires clean up of the register_console() code.
Otherwise, it would be even harder to follow. Especially, the use
of has_preferred_console and CON_CONSDEV flag is tricky. The clean
up is risky. The ordering of consoles is not well defined. And
any changes tend to break existing user settings.

Do the revert at the least risky solution for now.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20201221144302.GR4077@smile.fi.intel.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d2a3b3c0-e548-7dd1-730f-59bc5c04e191@synopsys.com/
[3] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-um/patch/20210105120128.10854-1-thomas@m3y3r.de/

Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 757055ae 11-Nov-2020 Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console

stdin, stdout, and stderr standard I/O stream are created for the init
process. They are not available when there is no console registered
for /dev/console. It might lead to a crash when the init process
tries to use them, see the commit 48021f98130880dd742 ("printk: handle
blank console arguments passed in.").

Normally, ttySX and ttyX consoles are used as a fallback when no consoles
are defined via the command line, device tree, or SPCR. But there
will be no console registered when an invalid console name is configured
or when the configured consoles do not exist on the system.

Users even try to avoid the console intentionally, for example,
by using console="" or console=null. It is used on production
systems where the serial port or terminal are not visible to
users. Pushing messages to these consoles would just unnecessary
slowdown the system.

Make sure that stdin, stdout, stderr, and /dev/console are always
available by a fallback to the existing ttynull driver. It has
been implemented for exactly this purpose but it was used only
when explicitly configured.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111135450.11214-2-pmladek@suse.com


# 3117ff13 03-Apr-2019 Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>

tty: Add NULL TTY driver

If no console driver is enabled (or if a non-present driver is selected
with something like console=null in an attempt to disable the console),
opening /dev/console errors out, and init scripts and other userspace
code that relies on the existence of a console will fail. Symlinking
/dev/null to /dev/console does not solve the problem since /dev/null
does not behave like a real TTY.

To just provide a dummy console to userspace when no console driver is
available or desired, add a ttynull driver which simply discards all
writes. It can be chosen on the command line in the standard way, i.e.
with console=ttynull.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>