Re: [bisected] Re: tty lockdep trace

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Jun 05 2017 - 11:42:53 EST


On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 16:09 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jun 2017 13:34:31 +0200
> Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2017-06-04 at 12:00 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't know how you did it, but this passes my testing (reproducers for
> > > both the original issue and the lockdep splat/hang).
> >
> > I suppose I can sign it off, see if that inspires anyone to come up
> > with something better.
> >
> > drivers/tty: Fix 925bb1ce47f4 circular locking dependency
>
> This is still completely broken and has the same underlying flaw as the
> original.

Thanks for looking. ÂIt didn't look the least bit lovely, it being
equally busted (well, ever so slightly less, lockdep did sthu;) is not
a shocker. ÂOff to the bin ya go little patchlet.

-Mike