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Message-Id: <1366107356-7699-6-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:15:55 -0400 From: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com> Subject: [PATCH 6/7] tty: Clarify multiple-references comment in TIOCSETD ioctl Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com> --- drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c index 84ba790..9725c94 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c @@ -567,13 +567,15 @@ int tty_set_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty, int ldisc) tty_ldisc_restore(tty, old_ldisc); } - /* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a - a reference to the old ldisc. If we ended up flipping back - to the existing ldisc we have two references to it */ - if (tty->ldisc->ops->num != old_ldisc->ops->num && tty->ops->set_ldisc) tty->ops->set_ldisc(tty); + /* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a + reference to the old ldisc, or we hold two references to + the old ldisc (if it was restored as part of error cleanup + above). In either case, releasing a single reference from + the old ldisc is correct. */ + tty_ldisc_put(old_ldisc); /* -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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