This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
auxdisplay-ks0108-fix-refcount.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bab383de3b84e584b0f09227151020b2a43dc34c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:27:21 +0530
Subject: auxdisplay: ks0108: fix refcount
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
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 <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- 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");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/auxdisplay-ks0108-fix-refcount.patch
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