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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	greg@kroah.com, hskinnemoen@atmel.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMAENGINE: too many kref_put calls
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:40:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071027064029.GM8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071026235648.5737.45405.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:56:48PM -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:

>  static void dma_dev_release(struct device *dev)
>  {
> -	struct dma_chan *chan = to_dma_chan(dev);
> -	kref_put(&chan->device->refcount, dma_async_device_cleanup);
> +	return;
>  }

Practically guaranteed to be broken.  Empty ->release() is almost certain
to mean that you can get operations on already freed object.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-27  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26 23:56 [PATCH] DMAENGINE: too many kref_put calls Shannon Nelson
2007-10-27  6:40 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-10-27 13:28 ` Haavard Skinnemoen

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