If the tty driver mistakenly drops the last port reference before the tty has been released, issue a diagnostic and abort the port destruction. This will leak memory and may zombify the port, but might otherwise keep the machine in runnable state. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/tty_port.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c index 9857f7e..c94d234 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_port_destroy); static void tty_port_destructor(struct kref *kref) { struct tty_port *port = container_of(kref, struct tty_port, kref); + + /* check if last port ref was dropped before tty release */ + if (WARN_ON(port->itty)) + return; if (port->xmit_buf) free_page((unsigned long)port->xmit_buf); tty_port_destroy(port); -- 1.8.1.2 -- 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