The patch titled
vt: Decrement ref count of the VT backend on deallocation
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vt-decrement-ref-count-of-the-vt-backend-on-deallocation.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: vt: Decrement ref count of the VT backend on deallocation
From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx>
When a VT is newly allocated, the module reference count of the backend
will be incremented. This should be balanced by a module_put() when this
VT is deallocated.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/vt.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/char/vt.c~vt-decrement-ref-count-of-the-vt-backend-on-deallocation drivers/char/vt.c
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c~vt-decrement-ref-count-of-the-vt-backend-on-deallocation
+++ a/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -886,6 +886,7 @@ void vc_disallocate(unsigned int currcon
if (vc_cons_allocated(currcons)) {
struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[currcons].d;
vc->vc_sw->con_deinit(vc);
+ module_put(vc->vc_sw->owner);
if (vc->vc_kmalloced)
kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf);
if (currcons >= MIN_NR_CONSOLES)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from adaplas@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
vt-decrement-ref-count-of-the-vt-backend-on-deallocation.patch
pnxrgbfb-remove-ttyh-from-include.patch
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