Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262053AbUKJWa1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:30:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262064AbUKJWa1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:30:27 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:19976 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262053AbUKJWaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:30:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:30:16 +0000 From: Russell King To: Keshavamurthy Anil S Cc: Greg KH , Hotplug List , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: fix double kobject_put in kobject_unregister() Message-ID: <20041110223016.C26346@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Keshavamurthy Anil S , Greg KH , Hotplug List , Linux Kernel References: <20041110141923.A13668@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20041110141923.A13668@unix-os.sc.intel.com>; from anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com on Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:19:23PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 29 On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:19:23PM -0800, Keshavamurthy Anil S wrote: > Hi Greg, > > This patch fixes the problem where in kobject resources were getting > freed when those kobject were still in use due to double kobject_put() > getting called in the kobject_unregister() code path. Isn't it intended that, after an sysfs/kobject/device object is unregistered that the thread doing the unregistering must not dereference the memory associated with that object? IOW, the sequence: allocate register (refcount >= 2 after this completes) unregister will automatically free the object once the last user has gone. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/