Re: [PATCH 05/38] sparc: kernel: add missing put_device call

David Miller
2013-12-27T17:43:12Z

From: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:03:16 +0100

> This is required so that we give up the last reference to the device.
> The kfree() has been removed because put_device will set the underlying kref's
> reference count to zero and hence vio_dev_release will get called resulting in
> kfreeing the structure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>

There is no reference held to vdev->dev at this point, that's why
we should directly kfree() it and put_device() is not appropriate.

Pretty much all of your patches have this problem.