nmdm(4) does not call .l_close

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Sat Jul 28 03:28:10 UTC 2007


Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/26/07, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
>>> Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> it seems to me that nmdm(4) is not calling .l_close (i.e. does not
>>>> close whatever line discipline might be installed onto /dev/nmdmXX).
>>>> the problem is easy to reproduce - just open /dev/nmdm0A and install,
>>>> say, ng_tty(4) line discipline onto it. after that, simply close the
>>>> /dev/nmdm0A. in theory, the ng_tty(4) node should disappear when
>>>> device is closed, but it does not.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> i have not tried other disciplines yet, i.e. ppp and slip,
> 
> ok, i changed the patch to
> 
> ===
> 
> diff -u nmdm.c.orig nmdm.c
> --- nmdm.c.orig 2006-11-21 16:59:40.000000000 -0800
> +++ nmdm.c      2007-07-27 15:57:50.000000000 -0700
> @@ -401,8 +401,13 @@
>  static int
>   nmdmclose(struct cdev *dev, int flag, int mode, struct thread *td)
>  {
> +       struct tty *tp = dev->si_tty;
> +       int error;
> 
> -       return (tty_close(dev->si_tty));
> +       error = ttyld_close(tp, flag);
> +       (void) tty_close(tp);
> +
> +       return (error);
>  }

looks fine to me

> 
>  static void
> 
> ===
> 
> and tried it with h4, ppp and slip line disciplines. it seems to work.
> since nmdmopen() calls ttyld_open(), nmdmclose(), imo, should call
> ttyld_close().
> 
> any comments?
> 
> thanks,
> max



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