[PATCH 5/5] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Fri Jun 11 10:53:53 EST 2010


Hi John,

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:03:00 +0200 John Kacur <jkacur at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From: Amit Shah <amit.shah at redhat.com>
> 
> Alan pointed out a race in the code where hvc_remove is invoked. The
> recent virtio_console work is the first user of hvc_remove().

I am not sure where this comes from (linuxppc-dev only got 5/5) but this
patch was applied to Linus' tree quite some time age (and fixed since
then).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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