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Message-ID: <20121030022446.GF1920@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:24:46 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: George Zhang <georgezhang@...are.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, pv-drivers@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] VMCI: event handling implementation.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:04:27PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> +/*
> + * Releases the given VMCISubscription.
> + * Fires the destroy event if the reference count has gone to zero.
> + */
> +static void event_release(struct vmci_subscription *entry)
> +{
> + kref_put(&entry->kref, event_signal_destroy);
> +}
Same question as before with the kref_put() call, what is handling the
locking here? It looks like a race to me.
thanks,
greg k-h
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