From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
stable-review@kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-07 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 00/23] 2.6.27.58-longterm review Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 01/23] ALSA: hda: Use model=lg quirk for LG P1 Express to enable playback and capture Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 02/23] ALSA: hda: Use LPIB for Dell Latitude 131L Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 03/23] ALSA: hda: Use LPIB quirk for Dell Inspiron m101z/1120 Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 04/23] USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs entry for the Samsung YP-CP3 Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 05/23] USB: misc: uss720.c: add another vendor/product ID Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 06/23] HID: hidraw: fix window in hidraw_release Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 07/23] hwmon: (adm1026) Allow 1 as a valid divider value Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 08/23] hwmon: (adm1026) Fix setting fan_div Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 09/23] IB/uverbs: Handle large number of entries in poll CQ Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 10/23] mv_xor: fix race in tasklet function Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 11/23] md: fix bug with re-adding of partially recovered device Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 12/23] NFS: Fix fcntl F_GETLK not reporting some conflicts Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 13/23] nfsd: Fix possible BUG_ON firing in set_change_info Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 14/23] PM / Hibernate: Fix PM_POST_* notification with user-space suspend Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 15/23] posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 16/23] sctp: Fix a race between ICMP protocol unreachable and connect() Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 17/23] sound: Prevent buffer overflow in OSS load_mixer_volumes Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 18/23] sunrpc: prevent use-after-free on clearing XPT_BUSY Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 19/23] x86, gcc-4.6: Use gcc -m options when building vdso Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 20/23] tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing Willy Tarreau
2011-02-14 23:14 ` [Stable-review] " Ben Hutchings
2011-02-15 1:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-15 1:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-15 2:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-15 5:39 ` Willy Tarreau
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]
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 22/23] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove, again Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 23/23] install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check Willy Tarreau
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