On 03/05/2013 11:32 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: >> So I'm thinking about >> something like this: >> >> if (port->tty) >> set_bit(TTY_IO_ERROR, &port->tty->flags); >> tty = port->tty; <=== take a snapshot >> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags); >> tty_port_shutdown(port, tty); <=== use the snapshot >> set_tty_port(port, NULL); <=== put kref on that tty > > Yeah, that's better. But still not correct. The tty can be invalid (freed) at the time tty_port_shutdown is called. We should take a real reference inside the lock and put the reference explicitly after the call. -- js suse labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
