From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: cleanup prohibition of direct opening for unix98 pty master
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:08:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120103010831.GA21866@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F022FB4.5080703@openvz.org>
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:29:08AM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:22:31PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> >>cleanup hack added in v2.6.27-3203-g15582d3
> >>
> >>comment from that patch:
> >>
> >>: pty: If the administrator creates a device for a ptmx slave we should not error
> >>:
> >>: The open path for ptmx slaves is via the ptmx device. Opening them any
> >>: other way is not allowed. Vegard Nossum found that previously this was not
> >>: the case and mknod foo c 128 42; cat foo would produce nasty diagnostics
> >>:
> >>: Signed-off-by: Alan Cox<alan@redhat.com>
> >>: Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> >
> >Any reason why you didn't include these two people on this patch?
> >Perhaps they might wish to review it...
>
> This is just simple cleanup patch.
Even so, please resend and copy them.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-02 17:22 [PATCH] tty: cleanup prohibition of direct opening for unix98 pty master Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-01-02 17:28 ` Greg KH
2012-01-02 22:29 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-01-03 1:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-03 8:51 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-01-03 16:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-04 13:26 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-01-05 0:23 ` Greg KH
2012-01-05 9:04 ` [PATCH for tty-next] " Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-01-05 9:13 ` [PATCH] " Konstantin Khlebnikov
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