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Message-ID: <20071027064029.GM8181@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:40:29 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
greg@...ah.com, hskinnemoen@...el.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMAENGINE: too many kref_put calls
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:56:48PM -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> static void dma_dev_release(struct device *dev)
> {
> - struct dma_chan *chan = to_dma_chan(dev);
> - kref_put(&chan->device->refcount, dma_async_device_cleanup);
> + return;
> }
Practically guaranteed to be broken. Empty ->release() is almost certain
to mean that you can get operations on already freed object.
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