linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/pci/hotplug: Add missing pci_dev

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:30:49 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/pci/hotplug: Add missing pci_dev_get

On Sunday, November 23, 2008 12:08 am Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
>
> pci_get_slot does a pci_dev_get, so pci_dev_put needs to be called in an
> error case.
>
> An alterative would be to move the test_and_set_bit before the call to
> pci_get_slot.
>
> The problem was fixed using the following semantic patch.
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Applied to my linux-next branch, thanks.  Btw, I've seen quite a few of these 
Coccinelle related patches fly by, but I haven't seen an introduction of the 
tool posted to lkml.  Did I miss it?  Or maybe it just went to the janitors 
list?  If not, it seems like it might be a worthwhile thing to describe for 
people...


-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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