Re: [PATCHv3] panic: avoid deadlocks in re-entrant console drivers

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Thu Nov 01 2018 - 04:08:13 EST


On Thu 2018-11-01 10:48:21, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (10/31/18 13:27), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The patch makes sense to me. The locks should stay busted also for
> > console_flush_on_panic().
> >
> > With the added #include <linux/vt_kern.h>:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Since there are no objections - how shall we route it? Via printk tree?

Good question. OK, I am going to put it into printk.git unless I hear
complains withing next couple of days.


> I'd also prefer this patch to be in -stable, it fixes a real issue after
> all.

It makes sense.

Best Regards,
Petr