Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:13:50 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 3.7-rc1 |
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:48:58PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 10/01/2012 08:30 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Stanislav Kozina (2): > > tty: Fix possible race in n_tty_read() > > The (pretty hopeless) commit log says: > Fix possible panic caused by unlocked access to tty->read_cnt in > while-loop condition in n_tty_read(). > > Just curious, what kind of panic that can cause, can you be more > concrete on that? I suppose two readers, one eats everything, the other > is a killer? And should we backport to -stable?
Stanislav, you are the one who could reproduce this, any answers here?
thanks,
greg k-h
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