From patchwork Tue Oct 20 21:32:43 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 533215 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565331412E4; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:33:40 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoeXI-0000AR-DS; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:33:36 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoeWU-00087S-Ji for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:32:46 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoeWU-0001td-Cc; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:32:46 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoeWS-0000Ic-5b; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:32:44 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: Sudip Mukherjee Subject: [3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount" has been added to staging queue Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:32:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1445376763-1117-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 X-Extended-Stable: 3.13 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kamal Mostafa , Sudip Mukherjee , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt28. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 162d24deebd66b4593b5da56b105b5aed7098591 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:27:21 +0530 Subject: auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount commit bab383de3b84e584b0f09227151020b2a43dc34c upstream. parport_find_base() will implicitly do parport_get_port() which increases the refcount. Then parport_register_device() will again increment the refcount. But while unloading the module we are only doing parport_unregister_device() decrementing the refcount only once. We add an parport_put_port() to neutralize the effect of parport_get_port(). Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) -- 1.9.1 diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c index 5b93852..0d75285 100644 --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ static int __init ks0108_init(void) ks0108_pardevice = parport_register_device(ks0108_parport, KS0108_NAME, NULL, NULL, NULL, PARPORT_DEV_EXCL, NULL); + parport_put_port(ks0108_parport); if (ks0108_pardevice == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR KS0108_NAME ": ERROR: " "parport didn't register new device\n");