linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] debugobject: add support for kref

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Date:	Mon, 4 Nov 2013 17:15:48 +0100
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...akpoint.cc>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	jic23@...nel.org, lars@...afoo.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] debugobject: add support for kref

On 03.11.13, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> v1…v2:
> - not an RFC anymore
> - addressed tglx review:
>   - use debug_obj_descr with state active
>   - use debug_object_active_state() to check for active object instead the
>     other hack I had.
>   - added debug_object_free() in a way that does not interfere with the
>     NSA sniffer API so it does not get removed from the patch by accident.

now I just run into output like
|ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: kref hint: gserial_alloc_line+0x90/0x194 [u_serial]

and yes I added a hint for that which points to where the kref got it
kref_init() call from. Now I am not sure if this a false positive
(we did kref_init() never used it so the whole struct was removed) or if
it really found something.
And while I hit this, I noticed that I really need a fixup function or
else debugobject will loop forever in __debug_check_no_obj_freed().

Sebastian
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