From c290f8358acaeffd8e0c551ddcc24d1206143376 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:32:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] TTY: drop driver reference in tty_open fail path

When tty_driver_lookup_tty fails in tty_open, we forget to drop a
reference to the tty driver. This was added by commit 4a2b5fddd5 (Move
tty lookup/reopen to caller).

Fix that by adding tty_driver_kref_put to the fail path.

I will refactor the code later. This is for the ease of backporting to
stable.

Introduced-in: v2.6.28-rc2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 4ca4bcd28ff..6913da8f202 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1873,6 +1873,7 @@ got_driver:
 		if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
 			tty_unlock();
 			mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+			tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
 			return PTR_ERR(tty);
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.11.4.GIT