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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: frankie lin <frankiefrankie.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, open <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] TTY Fix NULL pointer error in tty_wakeup
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:02:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130331150210.GC9494@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD-pLEFtw0=j+jL2+ecqKShdz_GOSmfAzn3T0+3mr=5Ofnks7w@mail.gmail.com>

A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 04:09:05PM +0800, frankie lin wrote:
> Hi, greg, it's excited to get your reply.
> In our case, it is gs_start_io(struct gs_port *port) in the file u_serial.c who
> call the tty_wakeup. We are trying to find the root cause.  Something is wrong
> before calling tty_wakeup, nevertheless it is reasonable to check the parameter
> first before test_bit.

No, please find the root problem here in your driver.

> To some extent, this patch can improve the robustness of function tty_wakeup,
> isn't it?

Not at the expense of papering over other bugs, sorry.

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-31 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-30  7:58 [PATCH 1/1] TTY Fix NULL pointer error in tty_wakeup Frankie Lin
2013-03-30 15:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]   ` <CAD-pLEFtw0=j+jL2+ecqKShdz_GOSmfAzn3T0+3mr=5Ofnks7w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-31 15:02     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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