Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:22:16 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 3.7-rc1 |
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:04:46 +0100 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> On 10/02/2012 12:13 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > 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? > > Ping?
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