Re: 2.6.16.18 kernel freezes while pppd is exiting

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-06-12 am 10:07 -0500, ysgrifennodd Paul Fulghum:
> Chuck:
> 
> Here is a patch to serialize flush_to_ldisc
> with per device granularity. It should fix the
> corruption of the free list that is the probably

>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
> +	clear_bit(TTY_FLUSHING, &tty->flags);

Shouldn't those two be reversed if you want to go with this path. How is
this occuring anyway the flush_to_ldisc path should never re-enter.

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