Re: [PATCH] TTY: disable debugging warning

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Feb 27 2013 - 16:48:22 EST


On 02/27/2013 10:42 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:30:24PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> We added a warning to flush_to_ldisc to report cases when it is called
>> with a NULL tty. It was for debugging purposes and it lead to a
>> patchset from Peter Hurley. The patchset however did not make it to
>> 3.9, so disable the warning now to not disturb people.
>>
>> We can re-add it when the series is in and we are hunting for another
>> bugs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Thanks, I'll queue this up for 3.9-final, but does it also need to go
> into 3.8?

That's a question... In 3.8 it happened too, but very seldomly. Read:
only triggerable by trinity fuzz tester after hours of fuzzing. But
yeah, let's disable it there too so that people won't complain.

thanks,
--
js
suse labs
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