[PATCH 03/15] tty: audit: Remove icanon mode from call chain

Peter Hurley peter at hurleysoftware.com
Thu Nov 12 19:58:37 UTC 2015


On 11/12/2015 02:10 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/11/10, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> The tty termios bits cannot change while n_tty_read() is in the
>> i/o loop; the termios_rwsem ensures mutual exclusion with termios
>> changes in n_tty_set_termios(). Check L_ICANON() directly and
>> eliminate icanon parameter.
>>
>> NB: tty_audit_add_data() => tty_audit_buf_get() => tty_audit_buf_alloc()
>> is a single path; ie., tty_audit_buf_get() and tty_audit_buf_alloc()
>> have no other callers.
> 
> Which tree is this based on?  I don't see where the first chunk applies.

4.3

but this series requires a -stable fix [1] posted earlier but not in any
tree yet, which I noted in the cover-letter (was easy to overlook).

Regards,
Peter Hurley

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/8/133




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