Re: [ATM]: refcount atm sockets

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>]

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Howdy, in this patchset for 2.4:

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:02:24AM +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.1405.1.4, 2004/01/16 02:02:24-08:00, chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
> 
> 	[ATM]: refcount atm sockets

> diff -Nru a/net/atm/common.c b/net/atm/common.c
> --- a/net/atm/common.c	Fri Jan 16 04:17:24 2004
> +++ b/net/atm/common.c	Fri Jan 16 04:17:24 2004
> @@ -242,6 +242,8 @@
>  		printk(KERN_DEBUG "vcc_sock_destruct: wmem leakage (%d bytes) detected.\n", atomic_read(&sk->wmem_alloc));
>  
>  	kfree(sk->protinfo.af_atm);
> +
> +	MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;

This has the usual wellknown races involved with handling the module's
refcount from within the moodule. Is there a way to push the
refcounting to the caller? 

Cheers, 
Muli 
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