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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index 876878a7704f..9b04d72e752e 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -2049,14 +2049,13 @@ static struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(dev_t device, struct inode *inode, if (tty) { mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex); retval = tty_lock_interruptible(tty); + tty_kref_put(tty); /* drop kref from tty_driver_lookup_tty() */ if (retval) { if (retval == -EINTR) retval = -ERESTARTSYS; tty = ERR_PTR(retval); goto out; } - /* safe to drop the kref from tty_driver_lookup_tty() */ - tty_kref_put(tty); retval = tty_reopen(tty); if (retval < 0) { tty_unlock(tty); |