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    hvc: ensure hvc_init is only ever called once in hvc_console.c · f76a1cbe
    Paul Gortmaker authored
    Commit 3e6c6f63 ("Delay creation of
    khcvd thread") moved the call of hvc_init from being a device_initcall
    into hvc_alloc, and used a non-null hvc_driver as indication of whether
    hvc_init had already been called.
    
    The problem with this is that hvc_driver is only assigned a value
    at the bottom of hvc_init, and so there is a window where multiple
    hvc_alloc calls can be in progress at the same time and hence try
    and call hvc_init multiple times.  Previously the use of device_init
    guaranteed that hvc_init was only called once.
    
    This manifests itself as sporadic instances of two hvc_init calls
    racing each other, and with the loser of the race getting -EBUSY
    from tty_register_driver() and hence that virtual console fails:
    
        Couldn't register hvc console driver
        virtio-ports vport0p1: error -16 allocating hvc for port
    
    Here we add an atomic_t to guarantee we'll never run hvc_init twice.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # v2.6.24+
    Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Fixes: 3e6c6f63
    
     ("Delay creation of khcvd thread")
    Reported-by: default avatarJim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarJim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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