This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: pch_uart: fix tty-kref leak in dma-rx path to the 3.10-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: serial-pch_uart-fix-tty-kref-leak-in-dma-rx-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 19b85cfb190eb9980eaf416bff96aef4159a430e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:50:50 +0200 Subject: serial: pch_uart: fix tty-kref leak in dma-rx path From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> commit 19b85cfb190eb9980eaf416bff96aef4159a430e upstream. Fix tty_kref leak when tty_buffer_request room fails in dma-rx path. Note that the tty ref isn't really needed anymore, but as the leak has always been there, fixing it before removing should makes it easier to backport the fix. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c @@ -658,11 +658,12 @@ static int dma_push_rx(struct eg20t_port dev_warn(port->dev, "Rx overrun: dropping %u bytes\n", size - room); if (!room) - return room; + goto out; tty_insert_flip_string(tport, sg_virt(&priv->sg_rx), size); port->icount.rx += room; +out: tty_kref_put(tty); return room; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jhovold@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/serial-tegra-fix-tty-kref-leak.patch queue-3.10/serial-pch_uart-fix-tty-kref-leak-in-dma-rx-path.patch queue-3.10/serial-pch_uart-fix-tty-kref-leak-in-rx-error-path.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html