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From: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] kref: warn kref_put() with unreferenced kref
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> Is there some reason you created these patches?  Were you trying to
> debug something that was tracked down to a kref issue?

I can find many places where I can replace refcounter with kref by doing
"grep -r atomic_dec_and_test linux/".

If we have this detection of kref_put() with unreferenced object,
The work of kref convertions would be more than code cleanup and
consolidation.