Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] 3.8-rc regression with pps-ldisc due to 70ece7a731

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 13 2013 - 11:45:56 EST


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 08:56:07AM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> The standard N_TTY line discipline used to not use the tty->disc_data
> field, so N_PPS felt free to use it. That has now changed, requiring
> that N_PPS use a different method to find its private data.
>
> (In the current, buggy, state, N_PPS follows a wild pointer and explodes
> in an interrupt hander as soon as a pulse actually arrives.)
>
> Compared to v1, this has been rearranges to the first three patches are
> the minimial bugfixes:
>
> * 1/9 "Add pps_lookup_dev() function"
> This adds the infrastructure necessary to bypass disc_data use.
>
> * 2/9 "Use pps_lookup_dev to reduce ldisc coupling"
> This actually fixes the bug.
>
> * 3/9 "Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source."
> This is actually an old bug, present before 3.7. I'd like to solicit
> feedback from folks who know device drivers better to ask if I did
> things right. I'd also appreciate a look at patch 8/9 which is a more
> aggressive cleanup of the same bug.

I can take these through my tty tree, but it would be very good if I
actually had the ack from the PPS maintainer...

Rodolfo, any objection for me taking these?

thanks,

greg k-h
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