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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Cc: Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Driver core: fix refcounting bug
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:06:44 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0701081103530.4249-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
This patch (as832) fixes a newly-introduced bug in the driver core.
When a kobject is assigned to a kset, it must acquire a reference to
the kset.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
---
The bug was introduced in Kay's "unify /sys/class and /sys/bus at
/sys/subsystem" patch.
I left the assignment of class_dev->kobj.parent as it was, although it is
not needed. The following call to kobject_add() will end up doing the
same thing.
Alan Stern
P.S.: Tracking down refcounting bugs is a real pain! I spent an entire
afternoon on this one... :-(
Index: usb-2.6/drivers/base/class.c
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/base/class.c
+++ usb-2.6/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ int class_device_add(struct class_device
class_dev->kobj.parent = &parent_class_dev->kobj;
else {
/* assign parent kset for uevent hook */
- class_dev->kobj.kset = &parent_class->devices_dir;
+ class_dev->kobj.kset = kset_get(&parent_class->devices_dir);
/* the device directory in /sys/subsystem/<name>/devices */
class_dev->kobj.parent = &parent_class->devices_dir.kobj;
}
next reply other threads:[~2007-01-08 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 16:06 Alan Stern [this message]
2007-01-09 4:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-09 7:13 ` Greg KH
2007-01-09 14:53 ` Alan Stern
2007-01-17 0:45 ` Greg KH
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