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    SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 3.7-rc1
    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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