linux-kernel - RE: refcount leak in pci_get

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Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:20:52 +0800
From:	"Zhao, Yu" <yu.zhao@...el.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	"Alex Chiang" <achiang@...com>, "Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>,
	<linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: refcount leak in pci_get_device()?

It's been so for a while, guess since 2.5. I meant to say the pci_remove_bus_device(), not pci_remove_bus(), is used by pci hotplug code. If a device is being plugged off, and some drivers are calling pci_get_dev_by_id() to search something, then the warning might be fired through bus_find_device -> klist_iter_init_node ->kref_get.

Thanks,
Yu

>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-pci-owner@...r.kernel.org
>[mailto:linux-pci-owner@...r.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Greg KH
>Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 1:38 PM
>To: Zhao, Yu
>Cc: Alex Chiang; Matthew Wilcox; linux-pci@...r.kernel.org;
>linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: refcount leak in pci_get_device()?
>
>On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:23:20PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote:
>> And the pci_get_dev_by_id() is not safe again the PCI device removal.
>> It might fire a warning in bus_find_device() when reference count of
>> the knode_bus is decreased to 0 by pci_remove_bus().
>
>Is this something new?  Hasn't this always been that way?  Why would you
>be wanting to call this function anyway?
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
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