linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix session leader exit hang

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Message-ID: <51376CDA.50407@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:20:42 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix session leader exit hang

On 03/06/2013 01:20 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> When a session leader exits, it hangs up the controlling tty and
> then signals the foreground group processes with SIGHUP. This sequence
> can hang as reported by Sasha Levin, and noted in the changelog of
> 'tty: Signal SIGHUP before hanging up ldisc'.
> 
> 
> Peter Hurley (5):
>   tty: Refactor session leader SIGHUP from __tty_hangup()
>   tty: Fix spinlock flavor in non-atomic __tty_hangup()
>   tty: Use spin_lock() inside existing critical region
>   tty: Signal foreground group processes in hangup
>   tty: Signal SIGHUP before hanging up ldisc
> 
>  drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 96 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> 

Hi, all three series look good to me.

-- 
js
suse labs
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