TTY: hvc_console, fix port reference count going to zero prematurely
authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:15:47 +0000 (19:15 +1100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:27:29 +0000 (12:27 -0800)
Commit bdb498c20040 "TTY: hvc_console, add tty install" took the port
refcounting out of hvc_open()/hvc_close(), but failed to remove the
kref_put() and tty_kref_put() calls in hvc_hangup() that were there to
remove the extra references that hvc_open() had taken.

The result was that doing a vhangup() when the current terminal was
a hvc_console, then closing the current terminal, would end up calling
destroy_hvc_struct() and making the port disappear entirely.  This
meant that Fedora 17 systems would boot up but then not display the
login prompt on the console, and attempts to open /dev/hvc0 would
give a "No such device" error.

This fixes it by removing the extra kref_put() and tty_kref_put() calls.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c

index a5dec1c..13ee53b 100644 (file)
@@ -424,7 +424,6 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
        struct hvc_struct *hp = tty->driver_data;
        unsigned long flags;
-       int temp_open_count;
 
        if (!hp)
                return;
@@ -444,7 +443,6 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
                return;
        }
 
-       temp_open_count = hp->port.count;
        hp->port.count = 0;
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->port.lock, flags);
        tty_port_tty_set(&hp->port, NULL);
@@ -453,11 +451,6 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
        if (hp->ops->notifier_hangup)
                hp->ops->notifier_hangup(hp, hp->data);
-
-       while(temp_open_count) {
-               --temp_open_count;
-               tty_port_put(&hp->port);
-       }
 }
 
 /*