Re: [uml-devel] um: TTY fixes (?)

From: Boaz Harrosh
Date: Thu Jun 07 2012 - 06:35:43 EST


On 06/07/2012 01:19 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:

>
> No, it works fine.
>


OK Sorry I missed that part. So you are saying that these patches
fix Fedora, but completely break other systems which now work?

I saw in your cover letter that Debian was fine with or without
->hangup() so I assumed all other system are more like Debian.

>> I don't see Alan's comment at all. This is not a regression it was always
>> like that. Ever since Fedora was working on UML, But these fixes are real
>> live regression crashes.
>>
>> And I don't see the all "leaving other vendors systems insecure". It just
>> a freaking UML tty. You need to be root 5 times before you have access
>> to all these, and it's only the UML that's compromised not the "all system"
>> And surely the current plain tty0 crash is much less secure then this thing.
>
> The "TTY problem" is not UML specific.
>


Exactly my point, so it is not anything your UM-only patches can do anything
about it. right?

> Thanks,
> //richard
>


I guess I will have to carry these longer. Can I fix my FC12 and FC15 so they
don't crash with mainline?

Thanks
Boaz
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