From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
stable-review@kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/23] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 23:11:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110207221106.GA10317@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110208081600.1a816af5@kryten>
Hi Anton,
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:16:00AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
> >
> > commit e74d098c66543d0731de62eb747ccd5b636a6f4c upstream.
> >
> > Alan pointed out a race in the code where hvc_remove is invoked. The
> > recent virtio_console work is the first user of hvc_remove().
>
> I faintly remember this bug caused boot issues and the following patch
> must be applied to fix it.
The patch you pointed was indeed merged just after this one so we should
be OK. Thanks very much for the double check !
Willy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-07 22:11 UTC|newest]
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2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 21/23] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove Willy Tarreau
2011-02-07 21:16 ` Anton Blanchard
2011-02-07 22:11 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
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