linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/24] TTY: ircomm, use open counts from tty

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Message-ID: <20120604173613.5a75c451@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2012 17:36:13 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, alan@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/24] TTY: ircomm, use open counts from tty_port

On Mon,  4 Jun 2012 13:35:18 +0200
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz> wrote:

> Switch to tty_port->count and blocked_open.

Only question here is tty_port->count should be under the port lock, so
code which plays with the count itself like this probably needs to be
using the port lock ?

Alan

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