From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SLIP: Is there a maintainer for drivers/net/slip/slip.c ?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:53:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C84F76.5030402@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C802DA.4080202@mentor.com>
On 06/24/2013 04:27 AM, Dean Jenkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using the Linux v3.9 tag, I note that
>
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/net/slip/slip.c
> netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
>
> There seems to be no maintainer for drivers/net/slip/slip.c, is that true ?
>
> I am asking because sl_encaps() and slip_write_wakeup() do not handle error codes from tty->ops->write() and a recursive stack overflow crash can occur if the tty->ops->write() fails to write all the characters. I have some patches to fix this but would like some feedback on an appropriate solution.
SLIP changes would likely go through David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>.
TTY changes would go through Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Regards,
Peter Hurley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-24 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-24 8:27 SLIP: Is there a maintainer for drivers/net/slip/slip.c ? Dean Jenkins
2013-06-24 8:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-06-24 13:53 ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2013-06-24 14:06 ` Dean Jenkins
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