linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3] panic: avoid deadlocks in re-entrant console drivers

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Message-ID: <20181101014821.GB502@jagdpanzerIV>
Date:   Thu, 1 Nov 2018 10:48:21 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Wang <wonderfly@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] panic: avoid deadlocks in re-entrant console drivers

On (10/31/18 13:27), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> 
> The patch makes sense to me. The locks should stay busted also for
> console_flush_on_panic().
> 
> With the added #include <linux/vt_kern.h>:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>

Thanks!

Since there are no objections - how shall we route it? Via printk tree?
I'd also prefer this patch to be in -stable, it fixes a real issue after
all.

	-ss