linux-kernel - [02/68] [SCSI] mptfusion: mptctl_release is required in mptctl.c

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Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:22:23 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@....com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Subject: [02/68] [SCSI] mptfusion: mptctl_release is required in mptctl.c

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Kashyap, Desai <kashyap.desai@....com>

commit 84857c8bf83e8aa87afc57d2956ba01f11d82386 upstream.

Added missing release callback for file_operations mptctl_fops.
Without release callback there will be never freed. It remains on
mptctl's eent list even after the file is closed and released.

Relavent RHEL bugzilla is 660871

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@....com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
@@ -577,6 +577,13 @@ mptctl_event_process(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, E
 }
 
 static int
+mptctl_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
+{
+	fasync_helper(-1, filep, 0, &async_queue);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int
 mptctl_fasync(int fd, struct file *filep, int mode)
 {
 	MPT_ADAPTER	*ioc;
@@ -2778,6 +2785,7 @@ static const struct file_operations mptc
 	.llseek =	no_llseek,
 	.fasync = 	mptctl_fasync,
 	.unlocked_ioctl = mptctl_ioctl,
+	.release =	mptctl_release,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 	.compat_ioctl = compat_mpctl_ioctl,
 #endif


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