USB: serial: fix race in generic write

commit 6f648546 upstream.

Fix race in generic write implementation, which could lead to
temporarily degraded throughput.

The current generic write implementation introduced by commit
27c7acf2 ("USB: serial: reimplement generic fifo-based writes") has
always had this bug, although it's fairly hard to trigger and the
consequences are not likely to be noticed.

Specifically, a write() on one CPU while the completion handler is
running on another could result in only one of the two write urbs being
utilised to empty the remainder of the write fifo (unless there is a
second write() that doesn't race during that time).
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: deleted code is a bit different]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

drivers/usb/serial/generic.c

@@ -228,14 +228,7 @@ static int usb_serial_generic_write_start(struct usb_serial_port *port)
 		return result;
 	}
 
-	/* Try sending off another urb, unless in irq context (in which case
-	 * there will be no free urb). */
-	if (!in_irq())
-		goto retry;
-
-	clear_bit_unlock(USB_SERIAL_WRITE_BUSY, &port->flags);
-
-	return 0;
+	goto retry;	/* try sending off another urb */
 }
 
 /**