linux-kernel - [34-longterm 091/247] mptfusion: mptctl

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Message-Id: <1308850515-15242-32-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:32:39 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, "Kashyap, Desai" <kashyap.desai@....com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: [34-longterm 091/247] mptfusion: mptctl_release is required in mptctl.c

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

                   -------------------
    This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
    If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
                   -------------------

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: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
index caa8f56..4e12556 100644
--- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
@@ -577,6 +577,13 @@ mptctl_event_process(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, EventNotificationReply_t *pEvReply)
 }
 
 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 mptctl_fops = {
 	.llseek =	no_llseek,
 	.fasync = 	mptctl_fasync,
 	.unlocked_ioctl = mptctl_ioctl,
+	.release =	mptctl_release,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 	.compat_ioctl = compat_mpctl_ioctl,
 #endif
-- 
1.7.4.4

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