kern/92440: Kernel fault in knote when getty opens a serial port

[Paul Marciano]

The following reply was made to PR kern/92440; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Marciano <pm940 at yahoo.com>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/92440: Kernel fault in knote when getty opens a serial port
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:38:49 -0800 (PST)

 --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
 
 > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:30:07AM +0000, Paul
 > Marciano wrote:
 > 
 > > >Description:
 > > My systems all use serial consoles.  Upon logging
 > > out of a shell session I observed a kernel fault. 
 > > This has been reported before, I believe, but I
 > > couldn't find a PR.
 > 
 > I think this was fixed in 6.0-RELEASE.  Can you
 > confirm?
 > 
 > Kris
 > 
 
 Kris,
 
 Thanks for the info, but unfortunately I'm not in a
 position to be able to check out 6.0.  We're on 5.4
 and will move to 5.5 when it is released but 6.0 is
 regarded as immature (I would be interested in hearing
 other opinions on that point).  I have looked at the
 kernel sources and see that the 6.0 serial framework
 has changed.
 
 Also I cannot reproduce the crash - it just happened
 once (once too many).
 
 Thanks for the note, though.
 
 Paul.
 
 
 
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