linux-kernel - Re: [uml-devel] um: TTY fixes (?)

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:35:15 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
CC:	<user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, <jslaby@...e.cz>, <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] um: TTY fixes (?)

On 06/07/2012 01:19 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:

> 
> No, it works fine.
> 


OK Sorry I missed that part. So you are saying that these patches
fix Fedora, but completely break other systems which now work?

I saw in your cover letter that Debian was fine with or without
->hangup() so I assumed all other system are more like Debian.

>> I don't see Alan's comment at all. This is not a regression it was always
>> like that. Ever since Fedora was working on UML, But these fixes are real
>> live regression crashes.
>>
>> And I don't see the all "leaving other vendors systems insecure". It just
>> a freaking UML tty. You need to be root 5 times before you have access
>> to all these, and it's only the UML that's compromised not the "all system"
>> And surely the current plain tty0 crash is much less secure then this thing.
> 
> The "TTY problem" is not UML specific.
> 


Exactly my point, so it is not anything your UM-only patches can do anything
about it. right?

> Thanks,
> //richard
> 


I guess I will have to carry these longer. Can I fix my FC12 and FC15 so they
don't crash with mainline?

Thanks
Boaz
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