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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>,
	Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: fix bug - kernel can't be pinged through when bootargs console=null
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:06:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090206100607.277d83e2@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233908877-7729-1-git-send-email-cooloney@kernel.org>

On Fri,  6 Feb 2009 16:27:57 +0800
Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
> 
> when pass bootargs console=null into kernel from u-boot, the booted up
> kernel can't be pinged through. This happens after the kernel is upgraded
> to 2.6.28.
> 
> Should check if tty_driver is NULL before call kref_get() in tty_driver_kref_get().

Should not call tty_driver_kref_get(NULL) in the first place....

Need to fix the real bug not paper over it

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-06  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06  8:27 Bryan Wu
2009-02-06 10:06 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-02-07  0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-07  0:09   ` Alan Cox

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