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

[Gianluca Anzolin]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 08:26:45AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 07/25/2013 07:26 AM, Gianluca Anzolin wrote:
> > 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>
> 
> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks for the fix.
> 

Hi,

I sent this morning a newer fix changed following the instructions of Peter
Hurley. Could you apply that fix instead?

Thank you,

Gianluca
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