[PATCH 3.4 73/88] serial: pch_uart: fix tty-kref leak in rx-error path

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 09 2014 - 20:26:40 EST


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

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From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
@@ -1065,6 +1065,8 @@ static void pch_uart_err_ir(struct eg20t
if (tty == NULL) {
for (i = 0; error_msg[i] != NULL; i++)
dev_err(&priv->pdev->dev, error_msg[i]);
+ } else {
+ tty_kref_put(tty);
}
}



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