oss-security - kernel: hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc

Message-ID: <4B8F777E.1060705@kernel.sg>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:58 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: kernel: hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove

Heads-up. You might want to backport this if your kernel is affected. We 
are not requesting a CVE name for this as it does not affect any of our 
Red Hat supported kernels.

More info here:
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/83353/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568621

Thanks, Eugene

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