tty: Clarify multiple-references comment in TIOCSETD ioctl
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
index 5819667..75fa999 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -570,13 +570,15 @@
tty_ldisc_restore(tty, old_ldisc);
}
- /* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a
- a reference to the old ldisc. If we ended up flipping back
- to the existing ldisc we have two references to it */
-
if (tty->ldisc->ops->num != old_ldisc->ops->num && tty->ops->set_ldisc)
tty->ops->set_ldisc(tty);
+ /* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a
+ reference to the old ldisc, or we hold two references to
+ the old ldisc (if it was restored as part of error cleanup
+ above). In either case, releasing a single reference from
+ the old ldisc is correct. */
+
tty_ldisc_put(old_ldisc);
/*