linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] DMAENGINE: too many kref

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Date:	Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:40:29 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	greg@...ah.com, hskinnemoen@...el.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMAENGINE: too many kref_put calls

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:56:48PM -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:

>  static void dma_dev_release(struct device *dev)
>  {
> -	struct dma_chan *chan = to_dma_chan(dev);
> -	kref_put(&chan->device->refcount, dma_async_device_cleanup);
> +	return;
>  }

Practically guaranteed to be broken.  Empty ->release() is almost certain
to mean that you can get operations on already freed object.
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