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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pavlic@de.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] klist: Fix broken kref counting in find functions
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:49:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11364221703195@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136422170815@kroah.com>

[PATCH] klist: Fix broken kref counting in find functions

The klist reference counting in the find functions that use
klist_iter_init_node is broken.  If the function (for example
driver_find_device) is called with a NULL start object then everything is
fine, the first call to next_device()/klist_next increases the ref-count of
the first node on the list and does nothing for the start object which is
NULL.

If they are called with a valid start object then klist_next will decrement
the ref-count for the start object but nobody has incremented it.  Logical
place to fix this would be klist_iter_init_node because the function puts a
reference of the object into the klist_iter struct.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
commit e22dafbcd7a579c29a424d5203b5b33b131948a7
tree 122969a87ba706be8374beb15bc03493e3601404
parent bf74ad5bc41727d5f2f1c6bedb2c1fac394de731
author Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com> Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:48:40 -0800
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:18:08 -0800

 lib/klist.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/klist.c b/lib/klist.c
index bb2f355..9c94f0b 100644
--- a/lib/klist.c
+++ b/lib/klist.c
@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ void klist_iter_init_node(struct klist *
 	i->i_klist = k;
 	i->i_head = &k->k_list;
 	i->i_cur = n;
+	if (n)
+		kref_get(&n->n_ref);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(klist_iter_init_node);


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05  0:48 [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15 Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49 ` [PATCH] remove CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT option Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49   ` [PATCH] remove mount/umount uevents from superblock handling Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49     ` [PATCH] keep pnpbios usermod_helper away from hotplug_path[] Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49       ` [PATCH] add uevent_helper control in /sys/kernel/ Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49         ` [PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49           ` [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent" Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49             ` [PATCH] driver kill hotplug word from sn and others fix Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49               ` [PATCH] HOTPLUG: always enable the .config option, unless EMBEDDED Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                 ` [PATCH] Hold the device's parent's lock during probe and remove Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                   ` [PATCH] Allow overlapping resources for platform devices Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                     ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-01-05  0:49                       ` [PATCH] kobject_uevent CONFIG_NET=n fix Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                         ` [PATCH] Input: add modalias support Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                           ` [PATCH] ide: MODALIAS support for autoloading of ide-cd, ide-disk, Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                             ` [PATCH] Driver core: Make block devices create the proper symlink name Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                               ` [PATCH] Driver core: only all userspace bind/unbind if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                                 ` [PATCH] Driver Core: Add platform_device_del() Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                                   ` [PATCH] Driver Core: Rearrange exports in platform.c Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                                     ` [PATCH] Input: fix add modalias support build error Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                                       ` [PATCH] sysfs: handle failures in sysfs_make_dirent Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                                         ` [PATCH] drivers/base/power/runtime.c: #if 0 dpm_set_power_state() Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:49                                           ` [PATCH] net: swich device attribute creation to default attrs Greg KH
2006-01-05  1:38 ` [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15 Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05  2:07   ` Greg KH
2006-01-05  2:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05  3:31       ` Greg KH
2006-01-05  3:36         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05  3:44           ` devfs going away, last chance to complain (was Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15) Greg KH
2006-01-05  7:44             ` Steven Noonan
2006-01-05  9:17               ` Andrew Walrond
2006-01-05  9:18               ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-05 14:04           ` [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15 John Stoffel

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