From: amerei@gmail.com (nil acuna)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: scsi host refcounting
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:24:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F40BFBC.5080809@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I'm hot on the trail of how adding a SCSI LLD in the kernel works, but i
seem to have lost my bearings.
in the scsi_add_host_with_dma() procedure, it device_add()s shost_gendev
which has the side effect of incrementing the kobj refcount of its
parent. in my case, its a pci_dev.dev. a few lines after, it calls
get_device(shost->shost_gendev.parent); which would _also_ increment the
parent refcount. shouldn't it just do a single bump instead of two? see
snip below:
-- snip --
error = device_add(&shost->shost_gendev);
if (error)
goto out;
.......
scsi_host_set_state(shost, SHOST_RUNNING);
get_device(shost->shost_gendev.parent);
-- snip --
I'm just ocularly following the codes right now so i might have missed a
device_put on the parent somewhere. please enlighten me on this.
regards
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