From patchwork Wed Nov 14 08:15:47 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: TTY: hvc_console, fix port reference count going to zero prematurely Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:15:47 -0000 From: Paul Mackerras X-Patchwork-Id: 198832 Message-Id: <20121114081547.GA573@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com> To: jslaby@suse.cz, benh@kernel.crashing.org, anton@samba.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, alan@linux.intel.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Commit bdb498c20040 "TTY: hvc_console, add tty install" took the port refcounting out of hvc_open()/hvc_close(), but failed to remove the kref_put() and tty_kref_put() calls in hvc_hangup() that were there to remove the extra references that hvc_open() had taken. The result was that doing a vhangup() when the current terminal was a hvc_console, then closing the current terminal, would end up calling destroy_hvc_struct() and making the port disappear entirely. This meant that Fedora 17 systems would boot up but then not display the login prompt on the console, and attempts to open /dev/hvc0 would give a "No such device" error. This fixes it by removing the extra kref_put() and tty_kref_put() calls. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Jiri Slaby --- drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c index a5dec1c..13ee53b 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c @@ -424,7 +424,6 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty) { struct hvc_struct *hp = tty->driver_data; unsigned long flags; - int temp_open_count; if (!hp) return; @@ -444,7 +443,6 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty) return; } - temp_open_count = hp->port.count; hp->port.count = 0; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->port.lock, flags); tty_port_tty_set(&hp->port, NULL); @@ -453,11 +451,6 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty) if (hp->ops->notifier_hangup) hp->ops->notifier_hangup(hp, hp->data); - - while(temp_open_count) { - --temp_open_count; - tty_port_put(&hp->port); - } } /*