linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.2 101/120] auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount

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Date:	Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:29:01 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2 101/120] auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount

4.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>

commit bab383de3b84e584b0f09227151020b2a43dc34c upstream.

parport_find_base() will implicitly do parport_get_port() which
increases the refcount. Then parport_register_device() will again
increment the refcount. But while unloading the module we are only
doing parport_unregister_device() decrementing the refcount only once.
We add an parport_put_port() to neutralize the effect of
parport_get_port().

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ static int __init ks0108_init(void)
 
 	ks0108_pardevice = parport_register_device(ks0108_parport, KS0108_NAME,
 		NULL, NULL, NULL, PARPORT_DEV_EXCL, NULL);
+	parport_put_port(ks0108_parport);
 	if (ks0108_pardevice == NULL) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR KS0108_NAME ": ERROR: "
 			"parport didn't register new device\n");


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