linux-kernel - Re: tty crash in Linux 4.6

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Message-ID: <87k1td913u.fsf@linkitivity.dja.id.au>
Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2018 02:09:09 +1000
From:   Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>
To:     Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tty crash in Linux 4.6

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com> writes:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:48:06AM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > >> This patch works, I've had no tty crashes since applying it.
>> > >>
>> > >> I've seen that you haven't sent this patch yet to Linux-4.7-rc and
>> > >> Linux-4.6-stable. Will you? Or did you create a different patch?
>> > >
>> > > We are hitting this now on powerpc.  This patch never seemed to make
>> > > it upstream (drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c hasn't been touched in 1 year).
>> > 
>> > I seem to be hitting this too on a kernel that has the 4.6 changes
>> > backported to 4.4.
>> > 
>> > Has there been any further progress on getting this accepted?
>> 
>> Can you try applying 28b0f8a6962a ("tty: make n_tty_read() always abort
>> if hangup is in progress") to see if that helps out or not?

Sorry for the delay in getting the test results; as with Mikulas,
28b0f8a6962a does not help.

Regards,
Daniel

>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> greg k-h
>
> It doesn't help. I get the same crash as before.
>
> Mikulas