On 08/29/2018, 04:23 AM, Dmitry Safonov wrote: > In case of tty_ldisc_reinit() failure, tty->count should be decremented > back, otherwise we will never release_tty(). > Never seen it in the real life, but it seems not really hard to hit. I did see it. And this fixes it. > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 11 ++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > index 32bc3e3fe4d3..5e5da9acaf0a 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > @@ -1255,6 +1255,7 @@ static void tty_driver_remove_tty(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct * > static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty) > { > struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver; > + int retval; > > if (driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY && > driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER) > @@ -1268,10 +1269,14 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty) > > tty->count++; > > - if (!tty->ldisc) > - return tty_ldisc_reinit(tty, tty->termios.c_line); > + if (tty->ldisc) > + return 0; > > - return 0; > + retval = tty_ldisc_reinit(tty, tty->termios.c_line); > + if (retval) > + tty->count--; I would just do: if (!retval) tty->count++; here. Nobody from ldiscs should rely on tty->count. > + return retval; thanks, -- js suse labs