From c0fdfb80382e4901473ce0e31d1e7833c1d297be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 20:59:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tty: Fix ref counting for port krefs

The tty core supports two models for handling tty_port lifetimes;
the tty_port can use the kref supplied by tty_port (which will
automatically destruct the tty_port when the ref count drops to
zero) or it can destruct the tty_port manually.

For tty drivers that choose to use the port kref to manage the
tty_port lifetime, it is not possible to safely acquire a port
reference conditionally. If the last reference is released after
evaluating the condition but before acquiring the reference, a
bogus reference will be held while the tty_port destruction
commences.

Rather, only acquire a port reference if the ref count is non-zero
and allow the caller to distinguish if a reference has successfully
been acquired.

Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tested-By: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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