Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:19:22 +0200 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [uml-devel] um: TTY fixes (?) |
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Am 07.06.2012 12:14, schrieb Boaz Harrosh: > On 06/07/2012 12:22 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On 06/07/2012 11:45 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >>> >>> We cannot push this patch to Linus or -stable. >>> The problem is that will break other things. >>> E.g. login on non-tty0 terminals will break if the distro uses >>> util-linux's login. >>> > > > I don't understand. Current code does not work at all even for > tty0. as well as ttyX. Since 3-4 Kernels ago. I've been running with > your patch for a long time.
Depends on your userspace. On my setups it's very hard to trigger the bug.
> I really don't get it. You have not broken anything new. Only > not fixed all of the problems. Current code does not work for "non-tty0 > terminals" as well right?
No, it works fine.
> I don't see Alan's comment at all. This is not a regression it was always > like that. Ever since Fedora was working on UML, But these fixes are real > live regression crashes. > > And I don't see the all "leaving other vendors systems insecure". It just > a freaking UML tty. You need to be root 5 times before you have access > to all these, and it's only the UML that's compromised not the "all system" > And surely the current plain tty0 crash is much less secure then this thing.
The "TTY problem" is not UML specific.
Thanks, //richard
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