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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:53:58 -0400
From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
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To: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>
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Subject: Re: SLIP: Is there a maintainer for drivers/net/slip/slip.c ?
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On 06/24/2013 04:27 AM, Dean Jenkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using the Linux v3.9 tag, I note that
>
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/net/slip/slip.c
> netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
>
> There seems to be no maintainer for drivers/net/slip/slip.c, is that true ?
>
> I am asking because sl_encaps() and slip_write_wakeup() do not handle error codes from tty->ops->write() and a recursive stack overflow crash can occur if the tty->ops->write() fails to write all the characters. I have some patches to fix this but would like some feedback on an appropriate solution.

SLIP changes would likely go through David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>.
TTY changes would go through Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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