From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: kref refcounting breakage in mainline
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:43:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173159802.6955.6.camel@Homer.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306002521.GA12164@kroah.com>
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:25 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Mike, I've reverted this patch, and I don't see any references leaking.
> And, as your patch released the reference on the driver, and the
> module_add_driver() call would not grab a reference to the driver, only
> the module kobject, I don't see what you were trying to fix with this
> patch.
>
> Do you have a test case that this fixes?
What it fixed for me was the hard hang reported below.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/96
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-06 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-02 8:58 kref refcounting breakage in mainline Andrew Morton
2007-03-03 5:48 ` Greg KH
2007-03-06 0:25 ` Greg KH
2007-03-06 5:43 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2007-03-06 21:04 ` Greg KH
2007-03-07 5:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-03-10 15:44 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-03-10 16:03 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-03-15 5:27 ` Greg KH
2007-03-15 7:53 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-03-15 8:06 ` Greg KH
2007-03-15 8:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-03-15 9:39 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] ` <1173953960.6624.45.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
2007-03-15 14:54 ` Greg KH
2007-03-19 23:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-06 12:11 ` Mel Gorman
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