From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: tty locking for 2.6.9rc2
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:08:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915200856.GA8000@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095274482.2686.16.camel@deimos.microgate.com>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 01:54:42PM -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> There are 6 places where this needs to be done:
> 3 in tty_set_ldisc
> 2 in release_dev
> 1 in initialize_tty_struct
Argh I thought I'd fixed that after I turned it into one refcount field
from two.
> Switching back to N_TTY ldisc in release_dev() of tty_io.c
> takes a global ldisc reference (tty_ldisc_get) but
> then frees the tty structure. This causes a reference
> leak (global ldisc refcount) on N_TTY because there
> is no corresponding tty_ldisc_put.
Thanks will look
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 16:34 PATCH: tty locking for 2.6.9rc2 Alan Cox
2004-09-15 16:26 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-15 16:30 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-15 18:54 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-15 20:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-15 20:23 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-15 20:40 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-15 20:53 ` Paul Fulghum
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2004-09-24 0:36 Ulisses
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