Greg --
This patch does not correctly handle failures from try_module_get
or usb_serial_get_by_index. Please ignore this patch--I will send
a better one later.
Thanks,
-- Al
--- linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk14.orig/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c 2004-11-05 01:35:08.0 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk14
Greg --
This patch fixes a problem in usbserial open/close. If
the first open of a usbserial port fails, kref_put is
called twice on serial->kref--once in the error handling
in open and once in close, which is called even though
the open failed.
This patch does the put only in the failed open in
