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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ATM]: refcount atm sockets
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:53:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116125317.GD734@actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401161217.i0GCHNjW019602@hera.kernel.org>

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Howdy, in this patchset for 2.4:

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:02:24AM +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.1405.1.4, 2004/01/16 02:02:24-08:00, chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
> 
> 	[ATM]: refcount atm sockets

> diff -Nru a/net/atm/common.c b/net/atm/common.c
> --- a/net/atm/common.c	Fri Jan 16 04:17:24 2004
> +++ b/net/atm/common.c	Fri Jan 16 04:17:24 2004
> @@ -242,6 +242,8 @@
>  		printk(KERN_DEBUG "vcc_sock_destruct: wmem leakage (%d bytes) detected.\n", atomic_read(&sk->wmem_alloc));
>  
>  	kfree(sk->protinfo.af_atm);
> +
> +	MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;

This has the usual wellknown races involved with handling the module's
refcount from within the moodule. Is there a way to push the
refcounting to the caller? 

Cheers, 
Muli 
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200401161217.i0GCHNjW019602@hera.kernel.org>
2004-01-16 12:53 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2004-01-16 17:41   ` [ATM]: refcount atm sockets chas williams

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