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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:30:15 +0100
From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc: isdn@...ux-pingi.de, davem@...emloft.net,
gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: gigaset: freeing an active object
Am 30.11.2015 um 19:01 schrieb Paul Bolle:
> [DRAFT] gigaset: don't free() a struct platform_device
>
> One is not supposed to free() a struct platform_device. Instead one
> should, in the common case, only call platform_device_unregister(). That
> will drop the platform device's reference count. (Actually it's the
> reference count of the embedded kobject that is important here. But for
> users of platform devices that's basically irrelevant.)
>
> So move struct platform_device dev out of struct ser_cardstate, because
> ser_cardstate is (malloc'ed and) free'd.
I wonder how that will behave if someone attaches two of the devices to
different serial ports. Not likely, but not forbidden either.
Regards,
Tilman
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