From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
Nathan March <nathan@gt.net>,
centos-virt@centos.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of reverted Linux patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty", Linux 4.9 kernel frequent crashes
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 06:36:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170831043600.GD3359@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170830201014.GO4090@reaktio.net>
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:10:14PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Recently Nathan March reported on centos-virt list he's getting frequent Linux kernel crashes with Linux 4.9 LTS kernel because of the missing patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty".
Crashes with "normal" operation, or crashes when running a fuzzer or
other type of program?
> The patch was already merged upstream here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=71472fa9c52b1da27663c275d416d8654b905f05
>
> but then reverted here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=896d81fefe5d1919537db2c2150ab6384e4a6610
>
> Nathan confirmed if he applies the patch from 71472fa9c52b1da27663c275d416d8654b905f05 to his Linux 4.9 LTS kernel the bug/problem goes away, so the patch (or similar fix) is still needed, at least for 4.9 LTS kernel.
>
>
> Mikulas reported he's able to trigger the same crash on Linux 4.10:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2440637.html
> https://lists.gt.net/linux/kernel/2664604?search_string=ldisc%20reopened;#2664604
>
> Michael Neuling reported he's able to trigger the bug on PowerPC:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/10/1582
>
>
> So now the question is.. is anyone currently working on getting this patch fixed and applied upstream? I think one of the problems earlier was being able to reliable reproduce the crash.. Nathan says he's able to reproduce it many times per week on his environment on x86_64.
I don't know of anyone working on it, want to do it yourself?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-31 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-30 20:10 Status of reverted Linux patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty", Linux 4.9 kernel frequent crashes Pasi Kärkkäinen
2017-08-31 4:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-08-31 5:22 ` Michael Neuling
2017-09-01 12:59 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2017-09-01 20:48 ` Mikulas Patocka
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