From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751794Ab1KGSkM (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:40:12 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:56101 "EHLO earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751133Ab1KGSkL (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:40:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:41:03 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Alan Cox Cc: Ilya Zykov , Alan Cox , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Race condition in tty buffer's function flush_to_ldisc(). Message-ID: <20111107184103.76eb35d2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111107183950.4ec7a959@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <4EB7BD9A.7070600@ilyx.ru> <20111107115802.23201d45@bob.linux.org.uk> <4EB7CCFF.5090304@ilyx.ru> <20111107130643.07e84fca@bob.linux.org.uk> <4EB7E0C6.7050909@ilyx.ru> <20111107145005.68ca1050@bob.linux.org.uk> <4EB822C7.6070200@ilyx.ru> <20111107183950.4ec7a959@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > see why the paths you indicate cause it ? If you make mthread a cpu > struct variable and add a WARN_ON(1) in the error case do you get any I mean tty struct (ie tty->mthread) of course sorry