linux-kernel - Re: kref refcounting breakage in mainline

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:43:22 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: kref refcounting breakage in mainline

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:25 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> Mike, I've reverted this patch, and I don't see any references leaking.
> And, as your patch released the reference on the driver, and the
> module_add_driver() call would not grab a reference to the driver, only
> the module kobject, I don't see what you were trying to fix with this
> patch.
> 
> Do you have a test case that this fixes?

What it fixed for me was the hard hang reported below.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/96


	-Mike


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