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DateMon, 16 Jun 2008 12:46:02 +0100
FromAlan Cox <>
SubjectRe: [Bug 10741] bug in `tty: BKL pushdown'?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:33:13 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > The bug still exists, however, a bisect on another machine with the same
> > userland leads to different commit
> > (47f86834bbd4193139d61d659bebf9ab9d691e37 "redo locking of tty->pgrp"),
> > so it is not all that clear and stable.
> 
> Now that would actually make a lot more sense as a root cause.

Experiment time. In _proc_set_tty() in tty_io.c move the

	tty->session = get_pid(task_session(tsk));

back inside the lock just before

	tty->pgrp = get_pid(task_pgrp(tsk));

Alan
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