linux-kernel - Re: [RFD driver-core] Lifetime problems of the current driver model

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Date:	Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:08:40 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
CC:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>, gregkh@...e.de,
	hugh@...itas.com, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, oneukum@...e.de,
	maneesh@...ibm.com, rpurdie@...ys.net,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD driver-core] Lifetime problems of the current driver model

Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:20:48 +0200,
> Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> Cool. However, there's something fishy there (not sure whether it's in
>> your patch or a latent bug in the ccw bus code that just has been
>> uncovered):
> 
> Similar bug when loading/unloading a module that creates a driver
> attribute. The winner seems to be kfree(sd->s_element) in
> release_sysfs_dirent() (in case of an attribute, it will point to the
> attribute structure, which is usually statically created)...

Thanks for finding it out.  I was suspecting that last minute change.
The code should be

if (dir node)
	kfree(s_element)
else if (symlink node)
	do things and kfree()

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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