Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/vt possible race

[Andrew Morton]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi !
> 
> I falled again on the crash in con_do_write() with driver->data
> beeing NULL. It happens during boot, when userland is playing
> open/close games with tty's, I was intentionally typing keys like
> mad during boot trying to trigger another problem when this one
> poped up.

OK.  Was this patch confirmed to prevent any reoccurrences?

> Andrew: I suggest putting that in -mm for a while, and if it
> doesn't trigger any new problem, upstream, maybe without my
> 2 printk's "argh" :)

Yup.  I'll also bring back the sysfs patch which somehow triggers
this race.


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