From b0e95858238d95f32edf00ff4a0375165129d0c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hurley Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:04:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tty: Clarify multiple-references comment in TIOCSETD ioctl Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c index 5819667f5bdb..75fa99978348 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c @@ -570,13 +570,15 @@ int tty_set_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty, int ldisc) tty_ldisc_restore(tty, old_ldisc); } - /* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a - a reference to the old ldisc. If we ended up flipping back - to the existing ldisc we have two references to it */ - if (tty->ldisc->ops->num != old_ldisc->ops->num && tty->ops->set_ldisc) tty->ops->set_ldisc(tty); + /* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a + reference to the old ldisc, or we hold two references to + the old ldisc (if it was restored as part of error cleanup + above). In either case, releasing a single reference from + the old ldisc is correct. */ + tty_ldisc_put(old_ldisc); /*