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HID: fix reference count leak hidraw 

The hidraw subsystem has a bug that prevents the close syscall from ever
reaching the low level driver, leading to a resource leak. Fix by replacing
postdecrement with predecrement.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Oliver Neukum 2008-12-15 13:12:08 +01:00 committed by Jiri Kosina
parent 25e61613cf
commit b8a832b1c0
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drivers/hid/hidraw.c
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@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int hidraw_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
list_del(&list->node);
dev = hidraw_table[minor];
if (!dev->open--) {
if (!--dev->open) {
if (list->hidraw->exist)
dev->hid->ll_driver->close(dev->hid);
else