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From: Ryan Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvc_console fix to protect hvc_write against ldisc write after hvc_close
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:35:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095287748.3294.423.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915204107.GA26776@thunk.org>

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 15:41, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The current (I can't speak to what Alan Cox is going to change) rules
> with tty drivers is that tty drivers are supposed to close the line
> discpline in their close routines.  That's the much safer and cleaner
> way of fixing this problem, and it is in line with what most of the
> other tty drivers are doing.
				- Ted

Thanks for the pointer Ted.  I've looked through the drivers/char
directory but I must be blind because all I see other drivers doing is
setting tty->closing = 1 (and then = 0 later) and
ldsic->flush_buffer().  Is flush_buffer() what you're refering to?  The
tty->closing variable just seems to prevent the ldisc from reading.

Ryan S. Arnold
IBM Linux Technology Center


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-15 18:43 [PATCH] hvc_console fix to protect hvc_write against ldisc write after hvc_close Ryan Arnold
2004-09-15 19:20 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-15 21:23   ` Ryan Arnold
2004-09-15 20:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-09-15 21:36   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-15 22:35   ` Ryan Arnold [this message]
2004-09-24  1:15   ` ldisc writes during tty release_dev() causing problems Ryan Arnold
2004-09-24 12:40     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-24 16:18       ` Ryan Arnold
2004-09-24 15:30         ` Alan Cox

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