From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760920Ab2C3OTb (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:19:31 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:64833 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759621Ab2C3OT0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:19:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:19:20 -0700 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: "Tu, Xiaobing" Cc: Jiri Slaby , "alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Zhang, Yanmin" , "Du, Alek" , "Zuo, Jiao" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tty: hold lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling Message-ID: <20120330141920.GA17744@kroah.com> References: <20120316201445.GA1240@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:26:27AM +0000, Tu, Xiaobing wrote: > Hi Greg > Even there still a prepare buffer not protected, the patch is still > good to protect rest case, so this patch is still "nice to have" it > makes the situation better. for the not-fixed case, we can have > another patch to address that. Do you agree? As Alan says, it's in the middle of the merge window right now, and I can't take any new patches until 3.4-rc1 is out. It is in my queue to review when the merge window is over. patience please, greg k-h