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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2010-04-06 21:42:38 +1000
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-04-08 09:46:20 +0930
commit320718ee074acce5ffced6506cb51af1388942aa (patch)
tree0c57b9337452263e8f032cd0f37069f70921c490 /drivers/char
parentb7a413015d2986edf020fba765c906cc9cbcbfc9 (diff)
hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove
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 <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hvc_console.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
index d3890e8d30e..35cca4c7fb1 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
@@ -368,16 +368,12 @@ static void hvc_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * filp)
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);