Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers:tty:pty: Fix a race causing data loss on close

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jan 07 2021 - 10:29:00 EST


On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 08:41:09AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 06:49:02PM -0600, minyard@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Remove the tty_vhangup() from the pty code and just release the
> > redirect. The tty_vhangup() results in data loss and data out of order
> > issues.
>
> It's been a while, so ping on this. I'm pretty sure this is the right
> fix, the more I've thought about it.

Sorry, was waiting to see if someone else would review it :)

Will go do so now...

greg k-h