From: Krishanth Jagaduri <krishanth.jagaduri@sony.com>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Michael Thalmeier <michael.thalmeier@hale.at>,
Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>,
Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
Kento.A.Kobayashi@sony.com, Daniel.Palmer@sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15-rt] printk: ignore consoles without write() callback
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:40:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250423-singing-bat-60c6f6@krishanthj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg9d99mp.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de>
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:45:58AM +0106, John Ogness wrote:
> The ttynull driver does not provide an implementation for the write()
> callback. This leads to a NULL pointer dereference in the related
> printing kthread, which assumes it can call that callback.
>
> Do not create kthreads for consoles that do not implement the write()
> callback. Also, for pr_flush(), ignore consoles that do not implement
> write() or write_atomic() since there is no way those consoles can
> flush their output.
>
> ---
> This is only a problem for the PREEMPT_RT tree. Mainline does not have
> this problem.
Sorry for resurrecting this old thread but we actually want this patch
in 5.15-rt.
I am not sure why this was not applied to 5.15-rt yet since it is already
applied to 5.10-rt.
Could you please consider to pick this for 5.15-rt?
Best regards,
Krishanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-23 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-16 10:39 [PATCH 5.15-rt] printk: ignore consoles without write() callback John Ogness
2023-02-16 16:54 ` Sebastian Siewior
2023-02-17 8:45 ` John Ogness
2023-02-17 8:47 ` [PATCH 5.10-rt] " John Ogness
2023-02-17 11:55 ` Luis Claudio R. Goncalves
2025-04-23 10:10 ` Krishanth Jagaduri [this message]
2025-04-28 14:45 ` [External] : Re: [PATCH 5.15-rt] " Joseph Salisbury
2025-05-21 12:30 ` Krishanth Jagaduri
2025-05-21 15:32 ` Joseph Salisbury
2025-05-23 5:05 ` Krishanth Jagaduri
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