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Johan Hovold 6a7e6f78c2 tty: close race between device register and open
The tty class device is currently not registered until after the
character device has been registered thereby leaving a small window
were a racing open could end up with a NULL tty->dev pointer due to the
class-device lookup failing in alloc_tty_struct.

Close this race by registering the class device before the character
device while making sure to defer the user-space uevent notification
until after the character device has been registered.

Note that some tty drivers expect a valid tty->dev and would misbehave
or crash otherwise. Some line disciplines also currently dereference the
class device unconditionally despite the fact that not every tty is
guaranteed to have one (Unix98 pty), but this is being fixed separately.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-03-31 11:37:13 +02:00
arch powerpc fixes for 4.11 #6 2017-03-26 10:34:10 -07:00
block blk-mq: don't complete un-started request in timeout handler 2017-03-22 08:03:35 -06:00
certs
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
Documentation Char/Misc driver fixes for 4.11-rc4 2017-03-26 11:15:54 -07:00
drivers tty: close race between device register and open 2017-03-31 11:37:13 +02:00
firmware
fs driver core fix for 4.11-rc4 2017-03-26 11:05:42 -07:00
include Merge 4.11-rc4 into tty-next 2017-03-29 08:58:53 +02:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'stable-4.11' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2017-03-25 15:13:55 -07:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot() 2017-03-21 14:13:19 -07:00
net A fix for a writeback deadlock caused by a GFP_KERNEL allocation on the 2017-03-24 14:35:39 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-03-10 08:34:42 -08:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Adding a group of pin definition to fix headset problem 2017-03-23 09:39:55 +01:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-23 11:29:49 -07:00
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virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC: Fix command handling while ITS being disabled 2017-03-07 15:44:08 +00:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge 4.11-rc4 into tty-next 2017-03-29 08:58:53 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc4 2017-03-26 14:15:16 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.