2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]> commit 320718ee074acce5ffced6506cb51af1388942aa upstream. I don't claim to understand the tty layer, but it seems like hvc_open and hvc_close should be balanced in their kref reference counting. Right now we get a kref every call to hvc_open: if (hp->count++ > 0) { tty_kref_get(tty); <----- here spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->lock, flags); hvc_kick(); return 0; } /* else count == 0 */ tty->driver_data = hp; hp->tty = tty_kref_get(tty); <------ or here if hp->count was 0 But hvc_close has: tty_kref_get(tty); if (--hp->count == 0) { ... /* Put the ref obtained in hvc_open() */ tty_kref_put(tty); ... } tty_kref_put(tty); Since the outside kref get/put balance we only do a single kref_put when count reaches 0. The patch below changes things to call tty_kref_put once for every hvc_close call, and with that my machine boots fine. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]> Acked-by: Amit Shah <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/char/hvc_console.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c @@ -367,16 +367,12 @@ static void hvc_close(struct tty_struct hp = tty->driver_data; spin_lock_irqsave(&hp->lock, flags); - tty_kref_get(tty); if (--hp->count == 0) { /* We are done with the tty pointer now. */ hp->tty = NULL; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->lock, flags); - /* Put the ref obtained in hvc_open() */ - tty_kref_put(tty); - if (hp->ops->notifier_del) hp->ops->notifier_del(hp, hp->data); _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
