netdev - Re: netfilter: active obj WARN when cleaning up

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Message-ID: <20131202190814.GA2267@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:08:14 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: netfilter: active obj WARN when cleaning up

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 07:00:23PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > We need our own reference count. So we just have to defer the
> > > release of the kmem_cache struct until the ->release callback is
> > > triggered. The put of the embedded kobject must be the last action on the
> > > kmem_cache  structure which will then trigger release and that will
> > > trigger the kmem_cache_free().
> > >
> >
> > Ok, that sounds reasonable, or you can just create a "tiny" structure
> > for the kobject that has a pointer back to your kmem_cache structure
> > that you can then reference from the show/store functions.  Either is
> > fine with me.
> 
> Problem is that the release field is only available if
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is enabled. Without the callback I cannot
> tell when it is legit to release the kobject structure unless I keep
> scanning it once in awhile.

No, the release callback is in the kobj_type, not the kobject itself.

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