Re: [PATCH 0/4] tty/serial: at91: fixes dealing with port shutdown

[Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>]

On 07/01/2014 11:41, Nicolas Ferre :
> Hi,

Sorry for the noise: I messed up with git-send-email...

I re-sent the whole series.

Bye,


> These four fixes are pretty important for our atmel_serial driver as they
> deal with closing/re-opening of ports. They fix race condition and
> null pointers dereference.
> I added the "stable" tag to each of them (v3.12).
> 
> Even if we are late in the development cycle, can you please consider including
> these patches for 3.13?
> 
> Thanks, best regards,
>    Nicolas Ferre
> 
> Marek Roszko (3):
>   tty/serial: at91: Handle shutdown more safely
>   tty/serial: at91: fix race condition in atmel_serial_remove
>   tty/serial: at91: prevent null dereference in tasklet function
> 
> Mark Deneen (1):
>   tty/serial: at91: reset rx_ring when port is shutdown
> 
>  drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 


-- 
Nicolas Ferre