netdev - Re: [02/04] hso: fix refcounting on the ttyHSx devices

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Date:	Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:39:57 +0200
From:	Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Jari Tenhunen <jari.tenhunen@....fi>,
	Olivier Blin <blino@...driva.com>,
	Andrew Bird <ajb@...eresystems.co.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, rol@...be.net
Subject: Re: [02/04] hso: fix refcounting on the ttyHSx devices

Hello,

This single patch fixes the problem of the left-over /dev/ttyHSx when
unplugging the Icon device from the USB port. Everything else I'm using is
still working correctly as far as I can see, so you can add a :

Tested-By: Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net>

Thanks for that,
Regards,
Paul

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:01:41 -0700
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> From: Olivier Blin <blino@...driva.com>
> 
> 
> The references on ttyHSx devices were not decremented correctly when
> the tty was closed. The helper freeing the serial devices was never
> called because of that, and the module left some dangling sysfs
> devices after being unloaded.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Blin <blino@...driva.com>
> Cc: Jari Tenhunen <jari.tenhunen@....fi>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/net/usb/hso.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
> @@ -1103,8 +1103,8 @@ static void hso_serial_close(struct tty_
>  	/* reset the rts and dtr */
>  	/* do the actual close */
>  	serial->open_count--;
> +	kref_put(&serial->parent->ref, hso_serial_ref_free);
>  	if (serial->open_count <= 0) {
> -		kref_put(&serial->parent->ref, hso_serial_ref_free);
>  		serial->open_count = 0;
>  		if (serial->tty) {
>  			serial->tty->driver_data = NULL;
> 


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