Re: [PATCH v2] floppy: refactor open() flags handling (was Re: mm: uninterruptable tasks hanged on mmap_sem)

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On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>
>> I don't have any objections. And I agree that it does not make sense
>> to spend any considerable time on optimizing this driver.
>
> Yeah, on a second thought this definitely is the way how to deal with this
> in this particular driver.
>
>> > Alternatively we can take more conservative aproach, accept the
>> > nonblocking flag, but do the regular business of the driver.
>> >
>> > Actually, let's try that, to make sure that we don't introduce userspace
>> > breakage.
>> >
>> > Could you please retest with the patch below?
>>
>> Reapplied.
>
> Thanks. Once/if you confirm that syzkaller is not able to reproduce the
> problem any more, I'll queue it and push to Jens.


Tested. Fixes the hang for me.

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