[PATCH] tty_port: Fix refcounting leak in tty_port_tty_hangup()

From: Gianluca Anzolin
Date: Thu Jul 25 2013 - 01:26:46 EST


The function tty_port_tty_hangup() could leak a reference to the tty_struct:

struct tty_struct *tty = tty_port_tty_get(port);

if (tty && (!check_clocal || !C_CLOCAL(tty))) {
tty_hangup(tty);
tty_kref_put(tty);
}

If tty != NULL and the second condition is false we never call tty_kref_put and
the reference is leaked.

Fix by always calling tty_kref_put() which accepts a NULL argument.

The patch fixes a regression introduced by commit aa27a094.

Acked-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gianluca Anzolin <gianluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/tty_port.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
index 121aeb9..f597e88 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
@@ -256,10 +256,9 @@ void tty_port_tty_hangup(struct tty_port *port, bool check_clocal)
{
struct tty_struct *tty = tty_port_tty_get(port);

- if (tty && (!check_clocal || !C_CLOCAL(tty))) {
+ if (tty && (!check_clocal || !C_CLOCAL(tty)))
tty_hangup(tty);
- tty_kref_put(tty);
- }
+ tty_kref_put(tty);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_port_tty_hangup);

--
1.8.3.3

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