Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received"

This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c.

It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues.

It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can
cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless
work loop when the buffer fills up").

It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf()
function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code,
and didn't actually check for the error in the caller.

And it didn't actually work at all.  BenH bisected down odd tty behavior
to it:
  "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X
   server for me, possibly related to PTYs.  For example, cat'ing a
   large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a
   loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace
   data in the quoted bits further down).

   ...

   Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the
   flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because
   the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop
   forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer
   process that could have emptied the PTY."

which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a.

Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue.

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
index 5b07792ccb4..ff7dc08696a 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
  * 	tty device.  It is solely the responsibility of the line
  * 	discipline to handle poll requests.
  *
- * unsigned int (*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *, const unsigned char *cp,
+ * void	(*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *, const unsigned char *cp,
  * 		       char *fp, int count);
  *
  * 	This function is called by the low-level tty driver to send
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@
  * 	processing.  <cp> is a pointer to the buffer of input
  * 	character received by the device.  <fp> is a pointer to a
  * 	pointer of flag bytes which indicate whether a character was
- * 	received with a parity error, etc. Returns the amount of bytes
- * 	received.
+ * 	received with a parity error, etc.
  * 
  * void	(*write_wakeup)(struct tty_struct *);
  *
@@ -141,8 +140,8 @@ struct tty_ldisc_ops {
 	/*
 	 * The following routines are called from below.
 	 */
-	unsigned int (*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *,
-			const unsigned char *cp, char *fp, int count);
+	void	(*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *, const unsigned char *cp,
+			       char *fp, int count);
 	void	(*write_wakeup)(struct tty_struct *);
 	void	(*dcd_change)(struct tty_struct *, unsigned int,
 				struct pps_event_time *);