linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] msi: fix imbalanced refcount of msi irq sysfs objects

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:56:19 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com
Cc:	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bhelgaas@...gle.com, gregkh@...e.de, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msi: fix imbalanced refcount of msi irq sysfs objects

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:51:34 -0500

> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:19:52AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:53:05 -0500
>> Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:05:26PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> > > From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
>> > > Date: Tue,  3 Jan 2012 10:29:54 -0500
>> > > 
>> > > > This warning was recently reported to me:
>> > > 
>> > > I've hit this too, see:
>> > > 
>> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132458146927890&w=2
>> > > 
>> > > and my analysis at:
>> > > 
>> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch&m=132458391128660&w=2
>> > > 
>> > Yup, your analysis is correct. Regardless of the why behind msi enablement
>> > failing, we need to gate the kobject_del/put in free_msi_irqs on successful
>> > completion of kobject_init_and_add in populate_msi_sysfs.  This patch does that,
>> > using the parent pointer as a flag.
>> 
>> I applied this to my -next branch; doesn't seem critical to land
>> immediately.  If you disagree let me know and I'll pull it over to my
>> for-linus branch instead.
>> 
>> Thanks,
> I'm ok with it waiting, but I'll defer to Dave and others who have seen it
> occur.  It sounds like its alot of log noise.

The bug only exists in the PCI -next code I thought.
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