Re: [Bug 10741] bug in `tty: BKL pushdown'?

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Jun 16 2008 - 06:03:39 EST


Hi,

"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> writes:

> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of recent regressions.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> from 2.6.25. Please verify if it still should be listed.
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10741
> Subject : bug in `tty: BKL pushdown'?
> Submitter : Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date : 2008-05-18 2:16 (28 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121107706506181&w=4
> Handled-By : Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The bug still exists, however, a bisect on another machine with the same
userland leads to different commit
(47f86834bbd4193139d61d659bebf9ab9d691e37 "redo locking of tty->pgrp"),
so it is not all that clear and stable.

I will investigate further but the entry should probably stay for now.

Hannes
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