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Message-Id: <1366036972-9240-1-git-send-email-federico.vaga@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:42:52 +0200
From: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...il.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] sparc/kernel/vio.c: add put_device() after device_find_child()
The vio_remove() function uses device_find_child() but it does not drop
the reference of the retrieved child.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...il.com>
---
I do not have a SPARC system (and I do not know it), so I cannot test this
patch. Please test it.
If I'm right, the device_unregister() does not work properly because,
device_find_child() did get_device() on dev. In essence, the release method
associated to the device will never be invoked because there is a reference
to the device that is not dropped.
arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
index 3e244f3..8647fcc 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ static void vio_remove(struct mdesc_handle *hp, u64 node)
printk(KERN_INFO "VIO: Removing device %s\n", dev_name(dev));
device_unregister(dev);
+ put_device(dev);
}
}
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1.8.1.4
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