linux-kernel - [V4L2]decrement struct v4l2_device refcount on device unregister

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:56:01 +0200
From:	Maciej Szmigiero <mhej@...pl>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [V4L2]decrement struct v4l2_device refcount on device unregister

commit bedf8bcf6b4f90a6e31add3721a2e71877289381 introduced reference counting
for struct v4l2_device.

In v4l2_device_register() a call to kref_init() initializes reference count to 1,
but in v4l2_device_unregister() there is no corresponding decrement.

End result is that reference count never reaches zero and v4l2_device_release()
is never called, not even on videodev module unload.

Fix this by adding reference counter decrement to v4l2_device_unregister().

Resending due to spurious newlines around the patch in previous message.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Szmigiero <mhej@...pl>

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c
index c72856c..eb39af9 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ void v4l2_device_unregister(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev)
 		}
 #endif
 	}
+
+	v4l2_device_put(v4l2_dev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_device_unregister);

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