On 12/15/2015 11:23 AM, Herton R. Krzesinski wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 04:05:09PM -0200, Herton R. Krzesinski wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:36:26AM -0800, Peter Hurley wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <her...@redhat.com> >>>> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> >>> >>> Afaict, the stable tag goes back to the original implementation. >>> Did you research how far back the /dev/tty alias problem goes? >> >> Hmm no. I did cc stable because the first report I got about this issue >> was on RHEL 7 with 3.10 based kernel, so this issue goes far back >> some releases that are still supported and similar code is there. >> >> On a quick check on a 2.6.32 kernel, things were very different, >> tty_release_dev() called directly devpts_kill_index with inode >> from the same file being closed. I'll check more and adjust the tag. > > FYI, checked here and the problem should start with 3.8, after commit > fa2ecfc5a68d85624bbd84f7d010860776b7e602 devpts_kill_index was moved > to pty.c/pty_unix98_shutdown >
istm this goes back to multi-instance devpts support added in 2.6.28. Before then, there was no inode parameter because there was only one devpts instance and the idas were global. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/