On Sun, 2001-10-21 at 11:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This one has been reported before.
Colin, can you try Andrew's patch and report back? This problem has
been reported before -- its a tty bug that preempt (and SMP I wager)
just aggravate. I have a patch that I know fixes it, but Andrew's is
_much_ simpler. I will send you that if this fails. Please let me
know.
> --- linux-2.4.12-ac3/drivers/char/console.c Mon Oct 15 16:04:23 2001
> +++ ac/drivers/char/console.c Sun Oct 21 08:19:42 2001
> @@ -2387,9 +2387,15 @@ static void con_flush_chars(struct tty_s
> return;
>
> pm_access(pm_con);
> - acquire_console_sem();
> - set_cursor(vt->vc_num);
> - release_console_sem();
> + if (vt) {
> + /*
> + * If we raced with con_close(), `vt' may be null.
> + * Hence this bandaid. - akpm
> + */
> + acquire_console_sem();
> + set_cursor(vt->vc_num);
> + release_console_sem();
> + }
> }
>
> /*
Robert Love
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