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SubjectRe: tty crash in Linux 4.6
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:21:08AM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 4/11/18 9:09 AM, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> > Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:48:06AM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>>> This patch works, I've had no tty crashes since applying it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I've seen that you haven't sent this patch yet to Linux-4.7-rc and
> >>>>>> Linux-4.6-stable. Will you? Or did you create a different patch?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We are hitting this now on powerpc. This patch never seemed to make
> >>>>> it upstream (drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c hasn't been touched in 1 year).
> >>>>
> >>>> I seem to be hitting this too on a kernel that has the 4.6 changes
> >>>> backported to 4.4.
> >>>>
> >>>> Has there been any further progress on getting this accepted?
> >>>
> >>> Can you try applying 28b0f8a6962a ("tty: make n_tty_read() always abort
> >>> if hangup is in progress") to see if that helps out or not?
> >
> > Sorry for the delay in getting the test results; as with Mikulas,
> > 28b0f8a6962a does not help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> >
> >>>
> >>> thanks,
> >>>
> >>> greg k-h
> >>
> >> It doesn't help. I get the same crash as before.
> >>
> >> Mikulas
>
> Reviving a really old thread.
>
> It looks like this patch never got merged.

I do not see a patch in this email, so I have no idea what you are
referring to, sorry.

> Did it get resolved in some other way? I ask because we have a
> customer who seems to have hit this issue.

Can you try with the latest kernel to see if it is resolved or not?

thanks,

greg k-h

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