Re: proper tty-ldisc refcounting (was Re: WARNING at:drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c)

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 00:03:37 EST


On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 05:56:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> >
> > Works for me (SMP/non-SMP x86 builds). Great job.
> >
> > Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Greg - feel free to treat 4/2 and 5/2 any way you want. They are obvious
> enough (no subtle issues) that I'll happily pull them into 2.6.31 too:
> relative to the initial refcount changes (which it looks like we'll need
> to do just to fix the regression) they are pretty safe.
>
> But at the same time, they can equally well go into some later tree for
> the next merge window. So whatever you want to do.

I'll queue them up for .32 as they don't fix a bug that people are
hitting from what I can tell.

thanks,

greg k-h
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