netdev - Re: gigaset: freeing an active object

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Message-ID: <5665D2B7.3040409@imap.cc>
Date:	Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:40:55 +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 07.12.2015 um 13:25 schrieb Paul Bolle:

>>> Otherwise we'd still be freeing memory
>>> managed through reference counting.
>>
>> Now I#m confused. I thought by following Peter's suggestion to put the
>> kfree() in the release method we'd avoid just that.
> 
> Apparently it does, because I can't trigger the WARNING we're discussing
> here with your patch applied.

Nice.

> I'll have to dive into this stuff again,
> because apparently my mental model of what's going on is incomplete at
> best.

I won't claim anything like completeness for mine.

> In the mean time you might want to turn your patch into something that
> can actually be applied (with or without my Sign-off or Ack; I don't
> care how it finds its way into the tree). Please add add
>     Fixes: 2869b23e4b95 ("[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: new M101 driver (v2)")

Will do. (Not today, though.)

Regards,
Tilman

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Tilman Schmidt                              E-Mail: tilman@...p.cc
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