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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	"bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org"
	<bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Mel Gorman" <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug 8473] New: Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:33:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070608123350.5cc53c10.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181330448.5365.7.camel@amdx2.microgate.com>

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:20:48 -0500
Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:16 -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 05:06 +0200, Bj__rn Steinbrink wrote:
> > > This is do_tty_hangup() exchanging the fops while we're waiting for the
> > > lock. The new fops (hung_up_tty_fops) only have the unlocked variant and
> > > thus we Oops our way.
> ...
> > Here is a patch that restores the locked ioctl for hung_up_tty_ioctl.
> > Can you try it and see if it removes your oops?
> 
> Unfortunately I can't get the timing right to trigger this,
> but it is very clear the locked ioctl fop must not be
> allowed to disappear like my original patch allows.
> 
> Andrew:
> 
> Would you prefer I resend the entire compat ioctl patch or
> submit an incremental patch like in my message I'm quoting above?
> 

The compat_ioctl patch is in mainline, and has been for some time.

Hence a patch against mainline would be appropriate, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-08 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200705132102.l4DL2onF003014@fire-2.osdl.org>
2007-05-13 22:47 ` [Bug 8473] New: Oops: 0010 [1] SMP Andrew Morton
2007-05-13 23:25   ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-05-17 10:00     ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-05-17 16:45       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-17 16:59         ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-05-26 19:10           ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-06-08  3:06             ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-08  3:16               ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 14:10                 ` Paul Fulghum
2007-06-08 15:16               ` Paul Fulghum
2007-06-08 19:20                 ` Paul Fulghum
2007-06-08 19:33                   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-06-08 20:34                     ` [PATCH] tty restore locked ioctl file op Paul Fulghum
2007-06-09 18:18                       ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-09 21:52                         ` Paul Fulghum

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