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Subject[PATCH] usbserial: Reference leak
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A sufficiently-large number of USB serial devices causes a reference leak
when /proc/tty/drivers/usbserial is read.

Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
---
This should be in 2.6.18, for obvious reasons.
It also applies to older 2.6 kernels.)
---
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
index 3e96350..fae1410 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
@@ -471,8 +471,10 @@ static int serial_read_proc (char *page,
length += sprintf (page+length, " path:%s", tmp);

length += sprintf (page+length, "\n");
- if ((length + begin) > (off + count))
+ if ((length + begin) > (off + count)) {
+ usb_serial_put(serial);
goto done;
+ }
if ((length + begin) < off) {
begin += length;
length = 0;
--
Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de
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