From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/vt possible race
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:34:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040209203424.3fc85842.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1076386813.884.11.camel@gaston>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I falled again on the crash in con_do_write() with driver->data
> beeing NULL. It happens during boot, when userland is playing
> open/close games with tty's, I was intentionally typing keys like
> mad during boot trying to trigger another problem when this one
> poped up.
OK. Was this patch confirmed to prevent any reoccurrences?
> Andrew: I suggest putting that in -mm for a while, and if it
> doesn't trigger any new problem, upstream, maybe without my
> 2 printk's "argh" :)
Yup. I'll also bring back the sysfs patch which somehow triggers
this race.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-10 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-10 4:20 [PATCH] drivers/char/vt possible race Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-10 4:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-10 5:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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