[PATCH 033/100] serial: pch_uart: fix tty-kref leak in rx-error path

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Oct 11 10:41:03 UTC 2013


3.5.7.23 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>

commit fc0919c68cb2f75bb1af759315f9d7e2a9443c28 upstream.

Fix tty-kref leak introduced by commit 384e301e ("pch_uart: fix a
deadlock when pch_uart as console") which never put its tty reference.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
index 4798e94..9e97a39 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
@@ -1064,6 +1064,8 @@ static void pch_uart_err_ir(struct eg20t_port *priv, unsigned int lsr)
 	if (tty == NULL) {
 		for (i = 0; error_msg[i] != NULL; i++)
 			dev_err(&priv->pdev->dev, error_msg[i]);
+	} else {
+		tty_kref_put(tty);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
1.8.3.2





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