[PATCH] fix for tty-serial-move-port

From: Alexander Beregalov
Date: Thu Dec 04 2008 - 12:16:43 EST


Hi Alan

next-20081204 crashes with the following message:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88007d320248
IP: [<ffffffff803de934>] uart_remove_one_port+0xef/0x111
kfree(info);
393: 49 8d 7d 10 lea 0x10(%r13),%rdi
397: e8 00 00 00 00 callq 39c <uart_remove_one_port+0xef>

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/serial/serial_core.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/serial/serial_core.c
index e99a269..4fc25e4 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -2530,10 +2530,8 @@ int uart_remove_one_port(struct uart_driver *drv, struct uart_port *port)
/*
* Kill the tasklet, and free resources.
*/
- if (info) {
+ if (info)
tasklet_kill(&info->tlet);
- kfree(info);
- }

state->port = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&port_mutex);
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