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    tty/n_gsm.c: fix a memory leak when gsmtty is removed · ad34c79b
    Pan Xinhui authored
    commit 8f9cfeed upstream.
    
    when gsmtty_remove put dlci, it will cause memory leak if dlci->port's refcount is zero.
    So we do the cleanup work in .cleanup callback instead.
    
    dlci will be last put in two call chains.
    1) gsmld_close -> gsm_cleanup_mux -> gsm_dlci_release -> dlci_put
    2) gsmld_remove -> dlci_put
    so there is a race. the memory leak depends on the race.
    
    In call chain 2. we hit the memory leak. below comment tells.
    
    release_tty -> tty_driver_remove_tty -> gsmtty_remove -> dlci_put -> tty_port_destructor (WARN_ON(port->itty) and return directly)
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                    tty->port->itty = NULL;
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                    tty_kref_put ---> release_one_tty -> gsmtty_cleanup (added by our patch)
    
    So our patch fix the memory leak by doing the cleanup work after tty core did.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPan Xinhui <xinhuix.pan@intel.com>
    Fixes: dfabf7ffAcked-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    ad34c79b
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