From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: "'gregkh@linuxfoundation.org'" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Stephen Hemminger" <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
"'driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org'"
<driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmbus: unregister device_obj->channels_kset
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:16:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171113081626.7a725831@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <KL1P15301MB00068073D28F50BA10503F2BBF2B0@KL1P15301MB0006.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 01:53:33 +0000
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info")
>
> Without the patch, a device can't be thoroughly destroyed, because
> vmbus_device_register() -> kset_create_and_add() still holds a reference
> to the hv_device's device.kobj.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> ---
Good catch
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
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2017-11-13 1:53 [PATCH] vmbus: unregister device_obj->channels_kset Dexuan Cui
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