Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 3.7-rc1

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Oct 28 2012 - 11:17:28 EST


On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:04:46 +0100
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/02/2012 12:13 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:48:58PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> On 10/01/2012 08:30 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> Stanislav Kozina (2):
> >>> tty: Fix possible race in n_tty_read()
> >>
> >> The (pretty hopeless) commit log says:
> >> Fix possible panic caused by unlocked access to tty->read_cnt in
> >> while-loop condition in n_tty_read().
> >>
> >> Just curious, what kind of panic that can cause, can you be more
> >> concrete on that? I suppose two readers, one eats everything, the other
> >> is a killer? And should we backport to -stable?
> >
> > Stanislav, you are the one who could reproduce this, any answers here?
>
> Ping?

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