From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] race condition with drivers/char/vt.c (bug in vt_ioctl.c)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:19:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124756358.5350.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430A6902.7060304@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 08:08 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> There's a similar report in Kernel Bugzilla
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4812
>
> I was wondering what's the likelihood of tty->driver_data being NULL in
> vt_ioctl but never had the time to do further exploration. Your patch
> should fix that bug too.
>
Yep, that's the bug that is fixed with this patch, so you can close it
out. Well, not until it's added to the mainline (akpm already added it
to -mm). I wouldn't check for tty->driver_data == NULL, since that
would have been hiding the problem, and not solving it.
-- Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-23 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-20 3:21 [PATCH] race condition with drivers/char/vt.c (bug in vt_ioctl.c) Steven Rostedt
2005-08-22 7:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-22 13:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-23 0:08 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-08-23 0:19 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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