If the same ttyIx device was opened by two processes the module was not released and so the usage count went never to zero again. This oneliner fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Oskar Senft <o.senft@sirrix.com> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>