On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:04:39 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 08:18 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com> > > > > Alan pointed out a race in the code where hvc_remove is invoked. The > > recent virtio_console work is the first user of hvc_remove(). > > This causes hangs during boot on pseries machines. Haven't had a chance > to track that down yet, but please revert > e74d098c66543d0731de62eb747ccd5b636a6f4c for now. Its an exploitable hole so we should revert both the bug fix *and* the submission of the virtio console that makes the flaw triggerable, not jus tthe security fix. Alan _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
