Re: proper tty-ldisc refcounting (was Re: WARNING at:drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c)

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 00:09:45 EST


On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:53:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 05:56:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > >
> > > Works for me (SMP/non-SMP x86 builds). Great job.
> > >
> > > Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Greg - feel free to treat 4/2 and 5/2 any way you want. They are obvious
> > enough (no subtle issues) that I'll happily pull them into 2.6.31 too:
> > relative to the initial refcount changes (which it looks like we'll need
> > to do just to fix the regression) they are pretty safe.
> >
> > But at the same time, they can equally well go into some later tree for
> > the next merge window. So whatever you want to do.
>
> I'll queue them up for .32 as they don't fix a bug that people are
> hitting from what I can tell.

Oh wait, the original problem, single user mode. Hm, we need all of
these to fix that problem? Or just the first one?

thanks,

greg k-h
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