Passing the 'other' tty to tty_release_checks() only makes sense for a pty pair; make o_tty scope local instead. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index 5c782dc..8fedd22 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -1701,8 +1701,7 @@ static void release_tty(struct tty_struct *tty, int idx) * Performs some paranoid checking before true release of the @tty. * This is a no-op unless TTY_PARANOIA_CHECK is defined. */ -static int tty_release_checks(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *o_tty, - int idx) +static int tty_release_checks(struct tty_struct *tty, int idx) { #ifdef TTY_PARANOIA_CHECK if (idx < 0 || idx >= tty->driver->num) { @@ -1721,6 +1720,8 @@ static int tty_release_checks(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_struct *o_tty, return -1; } if (tty->driver->other) { + struct tty_struct *o_tty = tty->link; + if (o_tty != tty->driver->other->ttys[idx]) { printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: other->table[%d] not o_tty for (%s)\n", __func__, idx, tty->name); @@ -1778,7 +1779,7 @@ int tty_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) /* Review: parallel close */ o_tty = tty->link; - if (tty_release_checks(tty, o_tty, idx)) { + if (tty_release_checks(tty, idx)) { tty_unlock(tty); return 0; } -- 2.1.1 -- 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