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USB: serial: fix interface refcounting

Make sure the interface is not released before our serial device.

Note that drivers are still not allowed to access the interface in
any way that may interfere with another driver that may have gotten
bound to the same interface after disconnect returns.

Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Johan Hovold 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 2 1
      drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c

+ 2 - 1
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c

@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ static void destroy_serial(struct kref *kref)
 		}
 	}
 
+	usb_put_intf(serial->interface);
 	usb_put_dev(serial->dev);
 	kfree(serial);
 }
@@ -620,7 +621,7 @@ static struct usb_serial *create_serial(struct usb_device *dev,
 	}
 	serial->dev = usb_get_dev(dev);
 	serial->type = driver;
-	serial->interface = interface;
+	serial->interface = usb_get_intf(interface);
 	kref_init(&serial->kref);
 	mutex_init(&serial->disc_mutex);
 	serial->minor = SERIAL_TTY_NO_MINOR;