[Xenial][PATCH 0/7] Fix rare tty_ldisc_reinit panic

[Kamal Mostafa]

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1709126

The mainline commit 892d1fa7ea "tty: Destroy ldisc instance on hangup" (circa
v4.6) fixes a rare panic-inducing race in the tty driver.  A handful of
prerequisite mainline cherry-picks are required to apply this to v4.4.

Positive test results in the original bug:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/cpc-gce/+bug/1707089

 -Kamal


Peter Hurley (7):
  tty: Simplify tty_set_ldisc() exit handling
  tty: Reset c_line from driver's init_termios
  tty: Handle NULL tty->ldisc
  tty: Move tty_ldisc_kill()
  tty: Use 'disc' for line discipline index name
  tty: Refactor tty_ldisc_reinit() for reuse
  tty: Destroy ldisc instance on hangup

 drivers/tty/tty_io.c    |  23 +++---
 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 182 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 include/linux/tty.h     |   5 +-
 3 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)

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