From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755353AbZKDKue (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:50:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755308AbZKDKud (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:50:33 -0500 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:52652 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755335AbZKDKu0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:50:26 -0500 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: , Subject: [PATCH] driver core: Don't remove kobjects in device_shutdown. From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:50:28 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); Unknown failure Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not clean up any kernel data structures. Therefore don't put the kobjects for /sys/dev and /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char. This ensures we don't remove /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char while we still have symlinks from there to the actual devices. Acked-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 6bee6af..3324d5a 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1728,8 +1728,5 @@ void device_shutdown(void) dev->driver->shutdown(dev); } } - kobject_put(sysfs_dev_char_kobj); - kobject_put(sysfs_dev_block_kobj); - kobject_put(dev_kobj); async_synchronize_full(); } -- 1.6.5.2.143.g8cc62