tty: Fix close races in USB serial
authorAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:44:04 +0000 (13:44 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:19:37 +0000 (10:19 -0800)
USB serial has always had races where the tty port usage count can hit zero
during a receive event. The internal locking is a mutex so we can't use
that in the IRQ handlers.

With krefs we can tackle this differently but we still need to be careful.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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