Re: Subject: [PATCH] tty ldisc: Close/Reopen race prevention should check the proper flag

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:58:46AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 07/07/2012 12:24 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 09:53:19AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> >>From: Shachar Shemesh <shachar@liveu.tv>
> >>
> >>Commit acfa747b introduced the TTY_HUPPING flag to distinguish
> >>closed TTY from currently closing ones. The test in tty_set_ldisc
> >>still remained pointing at the old flag. This causes pppd to
> >>sometimes lapse into uninterruptible sleep when killed and
> >>restarted.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Shachar Shemesh <shachar@liveu.tv>
> >>---
> >>Tested with 3.2.20 kernel.
> >>
> >All tabs are converted to spaces and make this patch impossible to apply
> >:(
> >
> >Care to try again?
> I'm sorry, I'm sending this as an attachment. I've verified that my
> mailer sends this as plain text, so it should be okay.

Yes, that worked, but then I would have to edit the body to include the
above information in the patch properly.

So, care to resend it all in a "clean" format that I can apply it in?

thanks,

greg k-h