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? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
