* [PATCH] rocket.c: Fix ldisc ref count handling
@ 2005-07-14 14:36 Michal Ostrowski
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From: Michal Ostrowski @ 2005-07-14 14:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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If bailing out because there is nothing to receive in rp_do_receive(),
tty_ldisc_deref is not called. Failure to do so increases the ref count
and causes release_dev() to hang since it can't get the ref count to 0.
---
Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
drivers/char/rocket.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/rocket.c b/drivers/char/rocket.c
--- a/drivers/char/rocket.c
+++ b/drivers/char/rocket.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static void rp_do_receive(struct r_port
ToRecv = space;
if (ToRecv <= 0)
- return;
+ goto done;
/*
* if status indicates there are errored characters in the
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ static void rp_do_receive(struct r_port
}
/* Push the data up to the tty layer */
ld->receive_buf(tty, tty->flip.char_buf, tty->flip.flag_buf, count);
+ done:
tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
}
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