[PATCH 1/4] TTY: drop driver reference in tty_open fail path

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Oct 12 2011 - 05:42:07 EST


When tty_driver_lookup_tty fails in tty_open, we forget to drop a
reference to the tty driver. This was added by commit 4a2b5fddd5 (Move
tty lookup/reopen to caller).

Fix that by adding tty_driver_kref_put to the fail path.

I will refactor the code later. This is for the ease of backporting to
stable.

Introduced-in: v2.6.28-rc2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 4f1fc81..54b3cc4 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1872,6 +1872,7 @@ got_driver:
if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
tty_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+ tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
return PTR_ERR(tty);
}
}
--
1.7.7


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