linux-kernel - Re: Does vm_operations_struct require a .owner field?

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jan 2016 00:54:21 +0100
From:	"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@...gle.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does vm_operations_struct require a .owner field?

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 04:31:09PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Thank you.  So it looks like I was worried about nothing.
> 
> Steinar, you can remove the try_module_get/module_put lines from your
> patch.  Also, the list_del() and comment in usbdev_release() aren't 
> needed -- at that point we know the memory_list has to be empty since 
> there can't be any outstanding URBs or VMA references.  If you take 
> those things out then the patch should be ready for merging.

Good, thanks. Did so, compiled, testing it still works, sending :-)

/* Steinar */
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