Re: [PATCH 2/2] tty: n_gsm: Added refcount usage to gsm_mux and gsm_dlci structs

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:20:13 -0700
Russ Gorby <russ.gorby@intel.com> wrote:

> The gsm_mux is created/destroyed when ldisc is
> opened/closed but clients of the MUX channel devices (gsmttyN)
> may access this structure as long as the TTYs are open.
> For the open, the ldisc open is guaranteed to preceed the TTY open,
> but the close has no such guaranteed ordering. As a result,
> the gsm_mux can be freed in the ldisc close before being accessed
> by one of the TTY clients. This can happen if the ldisc is removed
> while there are open, active MUX channels.
> A similar situation exists for DLCI-0, it is basically a resource
> shared by MUX and DLCI  , and should not be freed while they can
> be accessed
> 
> To avoid this, gsm_mux and dlcis now have a reference counter
> ldisc open takes a reference on the mux and all the dlcis
> gsmtty_open takes a reference on the mux, dlci0 and its specific
> dlci. Dropping the last reference initiates the actual free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russ Gorby <russ.gorby@intel.com>

Both Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

There are some possible bits of tidying up but they can be dealt with in
the future.