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Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:15:49 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: your mail

On 02/12/2012 08:11 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:21:10AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 
>> @@ -343,7 +267,7 @@ static irqreturn_t line_write_interrupt(int irq, void *data)
>>  {
>>  	struct chan *chan = data;
>>  	struct line *line = chan->line;
>> -	struct tty_struct *tty = line->tty;
>> +	struct tty_struct *tty = tty_port_tty_get(&line->port);
>>  	int err;
>>  
>>  	/*
>> @@ -354,6 +278,9 @@ static irqreturn_t line_write_interrupt(int irq, void *data)
>>  	spin_lock(&line->lock);
>>  	err = flush_buffer(line);
>>  	if (err == 0) {
>> +		tty_kref_put(tty);
>> +
>> +		spin_unlock(&line->lock);
>>  		return IRQ_NONE;
>>  	} else if (err < 0) {
>>  		line->head = line->buffer;
>> @@ -365,9 +292,12 @@ static irqreturn_t line_write_interrupt(int irq, void *data)
>>  		return IRQ_NONE;
>>  
>>  	tty_wakeup(tty);
>> +	tty_kref_put(tty);
>>  	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>>  }
> 
> That, BTW, smells ugly.  Note that return before the last one has no
> tty_kref_put() for a very good reason - it's under if (!tty).  And
> just as line->tty, port->tty can become NULL, so tty_port_tty_get()
> can, indeed, return NULL here.  Which makes the first tty_kref_put()
> oopsable...

Nope, it is allowed to call tty_kref_put(NULL).

regards,
-- 
js
suse labs
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