Hi,
On 07/15/2014 11:08 AM, Li, ZhenHua wrote:
> This bug was founded in RHEL 6, kernel version 2.6.32.
>
> But I also checked the file tty_io.c in latest kernel, not all the code
> protected by tty_lock(tty).
>
> For example, in function tty_del_file,
>
> if (--tty->count < 0) {
> }
> and
> tty_del_file(filp);
> are not surrounded by tty_lock(tty).
Sure, but there is tty_lock_pair instead.
> So I think the new lock is necessary.
Nope, sorry, you have to complain to RedHat about this kernel. Unless
you can reproduce this with the vanilla kernel.
thanks,
--
js
suse labs
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