From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, sudip@vectorindia.org
Subject: patch "auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount" added to char-misc-next
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:45:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14388831046276@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From bab383de3b84e584b0f09227151020b2a43dc34c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:27:21 +0530
Subject: auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount
parport_find_base() will implicitly do parport_get_port() which
increases the refcount. Then parport_register_device() will again
increment the refcount. But while unloading the module we are only
doing parport_unregister_device() decrementing the refcount only once.
We add an parport_put_port() to neutralize the effect of
parport_get_port().
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.32+
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c
index 5b93852392b8..0d752851a1ee 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ static int __init ks0108_init(void)
ks0108_pardevice = parport_register_device(ks0108_parport, KS0108_NAME,
NULL, NULL, NULL, PARPORT_DEV_EXCL, NULL);
+ parport_put_port(ks0108_parport);
if (ks0108_pardevice == NULL) {
printk(KERN_ERR KS0108_NAME ": ERROR: "
"parport didn't register new device\n");
--
2.5.0
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