Bug#277681: CAN-2004-0814: Linux terminal layer races

[Horms <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:19:20PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Horms <horms@debian.org> [2004-10-22 17:25]:
> > > > See the bugtraq post by Alan Cox for details.
> > > > Attached is a patch by Jason Baron. I haven't tried it yet.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, we are already have a fix for this in svn.
> > 
> > Correction, I thought there was a patch in our tree, and
> > I was going to update it, but it does not seem to be there. 
> > I will resolve this. Thanks again.
> 
> What's the status of this?

Hi Martin

The patch is in the tree, I think a few people have tested it,
bit I am not sure. 

There are a few different kernel-source packages effected,
here is status summary:

kernel-source-2.6.9: Fixed in 2.6.9-1 release (probably still stuck in new)
kernel-source-2.6.8: Patch applied in SVN. Not released
kernel-source-2.6.7: Not maintained
kernel-source-2.4.27: Patch applied in SVN. Not released
kernel-source-2.4.26: Patch applied in SVN, but we aren't maintaining
                      this code any more, so there are no plans for a 
		      new release, ever.

I am guessing you are asing about releasing an updated package,
so I will speak to that for a moment.

We have not released an updated package to fix this bug.
I will stand corrected on this, but IMHO there is nothing in
the tree right now that would prevent us from making a release
right now. We have a mountain of bugs logged against the kernel,
but I am not aware of anything that means we couldn't make a release
now. By that I mean, I don't think we would be going backwards.

What I say above applies to both kernel-source-2.4.27 and
kernel-source-2.6.8. I don't think anything else is of concern
at this point.

-- 
Horms