[PATCH] drivers/char/mxser.c: Fix reference counting

[Jan Kasprzak]

	Hello,

In drivers/char/mxser.c:mxser_check_modem_status() there is a call
to tty_port_tty_get without a corresponding tty_put() call. This causes
the device to return -EIO on the second open(2) call.

Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/char/mxser.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/mxser.c b/drivers/char/mxser.c
index 402c9f2..de6f565 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mxser.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mxser.c
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ static void mxser_check_modem_status(struct tty_struct *tty,
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	tty_kref_put(tty);
 }
 
 static int mxser_startup(struct tty_struct *tty)
-- 
1.5.3.3

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