Hello, Okash Khawaja, on mer. 17 mai 2017 14:38:32 +0100, wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 09:45:46AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > This issue with opening tty from userspace while it's in use from kernel. Wonder > > > if this will rear its ugly head with rescpect to the recent patches? > > > > Ah, yes, we will have to think about that issue. > > Would you suggest me raising this with Alan Cox as he mentioned some > locking to prevent this scenario? Mmm, I don't see which locking you refer to, I don't remember Alan Cox talking about it? AFAICS, tty_open() will just always manage to open the tty, and reach the check_tty_count() call. Samuel _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
