linux-kernel - tty OOPS (Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm2)

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Message-ID: <20070328180446.GA7528@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de>
Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:04:46 +0200
From:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...x01.fht-esslingen.de>
To:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...x01.fht-esslingen.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: tty OOPS (Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm2)

Hi,

[unrelated maintainers removed, Alexey added]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:45:24PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just wanted to add that when analyzing the backtrace I found the comment
> at drivers/char/vt.c/con_close() to be VERY suspicious...
> (need to take tty_mutex to prevent concurrent thread tty access).
> This might just be what happened here despite trying to protect against it.

OK, can we assume that one of

+protect-tty-drivers-list-with-tty_mutex.patch
+tty-minor-merge-correction.patch
+tty-in-tiocsctty-when-we-steal-a-tty-hang-it-up-fix.patch

is responsible / not implemented fully?

Andreas Mohr
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