On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:04:46 +0100 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/02/2012 12:13 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:48:58PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> On 10/01/2012 08:30 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >>> Stanislav Kozina (2): > >>> tty: Fix possible race in n_tty_read() > >> > >> The (pretty hopeless) commit log says: > >> Fix possible panic caused by unlocked access to tty->read_cnt in > >> while-loop condition in n_tty_read(). > >> > >> Just curious, what kind of panic that can cause, can you be more > >> concrete on that? I suppose two readers, one eats everything, the other > >> is a killer? And should we backport to -stable? > > > > Stanislav, you are the one who could reproduce this, any answers here? > > Ping? Thread here http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.serial/8365 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
