Commit c0fdfb80 authored by Peter Hurley's avatar Peter Hurley Committed by Marcel Holtmann

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: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tested-By: default avatarAlexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
parent f87c24e7
......@@ -518,9 +518,9 @@ extern void tty_port_put(struct tty_port *port);
static inline struct tty_port *tty_port_get(struct tty_port *port)
{
if (port)
kref_get(&port->kref);
if (port && kref_get_unless_zero(&port->kref))
return port;
return NULL;
}
/* If the cts flow control is enabled, return true. */
......
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