Hello, In linux 3.10 in the file drivers/tty/tty_port.c the function tty_port_tty_hangup may leak a tty reference: struct tty_struct *tty = tty_port_tty_get(port); if (tty && (!check_clocal || !C_CLOCAL(tty))) { tty_hangup(tty); tty_kref_put(tty); } If tty != NULL and the second condition is false we never call tty_kref_put and the reference is leaked. Fix by nesting two if statements. Signed-off-by: Gianluca Anzolin