On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 15:22 +0100, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> JFI: I haven't checked your tree, but the same patches set contains fixes
> that are more important to my mind (looking at 4.9 stable tree):
> - "tty: Drop tty->count on tty_reopen() failure" commit fe3241679009

You marked this as applicable to 4.6+.  Is it actually applicable to
older versions as well?

> - "tty: Hold tty_ldisc_lock() during tty_reopen()" commit 83d817f41070
>   with follow-up fixup "tty: Don't hold ldisc lock in tty_reopen() if
> ldisc present"
>   commit d3736d82e816
[...]

I will include these in a later update, unless you think they are
really urgent and should be added to this one.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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