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Caif: Ref counting

Message ID 20100407141319.318ebb6f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Alan Cox April 7, 2010, 1:13 p.m. UTC 
caif: tty's are kref objects so take a reference

From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

I don't think this can be abused in this case but do things properly.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
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 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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David Miller April 7, 2010, 11:50 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:13:19 +0100

> caif: tty's are kref objects so take a reference
> 
> From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> 
> I don't think this can be abused in this case but do things properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

Also applied, thanks Alan.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
index 3502f60..b271aa0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@  static int ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	sprintf(name, "cf%s", tty->name);
 	dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*ser), name, caifdev_setup);
 	ser = netdev_priv(dev);
-	ser->tty = tty;
+	ser->tty = tty_kref_get(tty);
 	ser->dev = dev;
 	debugfs_init(ser, tty);
 	tty->receive_room = N_TTY_BUF_SIZE;
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@  static void ldisc_close(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	unregister_netdevice(ser->dev);
 	list_del(&ser->node);
 	debugfs_deinit(ser);
+	tty_kref_put(ser->tty);
 	if (!islocked)
 		rtnl_unlock();
 }