linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: at drivers/tty/tty

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1359570837.3325.30.camel@thor.lan>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:33:57 -0500
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: WARNING: at drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:476  (tty is NULL)

On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 22:00 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 01/18/2013 10:07 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Jiri, was there anything on the mailing list that I missed that should
> > have resolved this issue?  I thought it was being worked on, but I can't
> > seem to find any resolution at the moment.
> 
> Somebody had a patchset and promised to repost IIRC. I forgot his name
> though.
> 
> /me back from digging in the mail history.
> 
> Peter Hurley is the name.
> 
> Peter, what happened with your patches in the end, please?

The tty subsystem is very resilient to fixing :)

The thing I'm working on right now -- which hopefully is the last issue
with the line discipline logic -- occurs with parallel __tty_hangup()
and tty_release().

At the moment, I'm trying to narrow the conditions when this happens.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/