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Message-ID: <20071027154947.6836a3d9@siona>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:49:47 +0200
From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMA: Fix broken device refcounting
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:36:17 -0700
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> @@ -221,7 +220,6 @@ void dma_chan_cleanup(struct kref *kref)
> {
> struct dma_chan *chan = container_of(kref, struct dma_chan, refcount);
> chan->device->device_free_chan_resources(chan);
> - kref_put(&chan->device->refcount, dma_async_device_cleanup);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_chan_cleanup);
While I can't see any problems with the rest of the patch, I think this
part is wrong for the same reasons removing the kref_put() from the
class device cleanup function is. I don't see any constraint that
guarantees that dma_chan_cleanup() will always be called before
dma_dev_release(), which means that "chan" may have been freed before
this function gets a chance to run. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
HÃ¥vard
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