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 */