[PATCH] tty: make sure a BUG is hit if tty_port will be destroyed before tty

[Alexander Holler]

tty depends on tty_port until tty_release() was called. Make sure a BUG
will be hit, if tty_port will be destroyed before tty.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 Currently things are changing fast in the tty subsystem, therefor I don't
 know if the patch should be applied to kernel 3.10 too because the
 reference to tty_port in tty_ldisc_halt() is gone in 3.10-rc1.

 So it might be a patch only for the stable kernels since commit
 ecbbfd4 (kernels 3.8 and 3.9).

 drivers/tty/tty_port.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
index 121aeb9..a40c52b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_port_destroy);
 static void tty_port_destructor(struct kref *kref)
 {
 	struct tty_port *port = container_of(kref, struct tty_port, kref);
+	/* tty_port has to live until tty_release() was called. */
+	BUG_ON(port->itty);
 	if (port->xmit_buf)
 		free_page((unsigned long)port->xmit_buf);
 	tty_port_destroy(port);
-- 
1.8.1.4

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