Leak references by unbalanced get, instead of poking at kref implementation details. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- drivers/usb/mon/mon_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_main.c +++ b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_main.c @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static void __exit mon_exit(void) printk(KERN_ERR TAG ": Outstanding opens (%d) on usb%d, leaking...\n", mbus->nreaders, mbus->u_bus->busnum); - atomic_set(&mbus->ref.refcount, 2); /* Force leak */ + kref_get(&mbus->ref); /* Force leak */ } mon_dissolve(mbus, mbus->u_bus);