[PATCH] TTY changes for 2.5.58

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:14:10 -0800


ChangeSet 1.1025, 2003/01/14 16:51:58-08:00, greg@kroah.com

TTY: add module reference counting for tty drivers.

Note, there are still races with unloading modules, this patch
does not fix that...

diff -Nru a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c Tue Jan 14 17:07:05 2003
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c Tue Jan 14 17:07:05 2003
@@ -833,6 +833,11 @@
* and locked termios may be retained.)
*/

+ if (!try_module_get(driver->owner)) {
+ retval = -ENODEV;
+ goto end_init;
+ }
+
o_tty = NULL;
tp = o_tp = NULL;
ltp = o_ltp = NULL;
@@ -991,6 +996,7 @@
free_tty_struct(tty);

fail_no_mem:
+ module_put(driver->owner);
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto end_init;

@@ -1033,6 +1039,7 @@
tty->magic = 0;
(*tty->driver.refcount)--;
list_del(&tty->tty_files);
+ module_put(tty->driver.owner);
free_tty_struct(tty);
}

diff -Nru a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h Tue Jan 14 17:07:05 2003
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h Tue Jan 14 17:07:05 2003
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@

struct tty_driver {
int magic; /* magic number for this structure */
+ struct module *owner;
const char *driver_name;
const char *name;
int name_base; /* offset of printed name */
-
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