Re: refcount leak in pci_get_device()?

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:19:18PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> #define for_each_pci_dev(d) while ((d = pci_get_device(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, d)) != NULL)
> 
> That eventually calls pci_get_dev_by_id(), which increases the
> refcount on the device, but never decrements it.
> 
> Looks like that change in behavior happened here:
> 
> 	PCI: clean up search.c a lot
> 	95247b57ed844511a212265b45cf9a919753aea1
> 
> pci_get_device() used to decrement the refcount, but no longer
> does.
> 
> Thanks to Matthew Wilcox for helping me get this far...
> 
> Like I said, I'm still trying to track down my particular issue,
> but I'd like to get your opinion on this.

In particular, I'd like to know whether this should be fixed by
pci_get_dev_by_id() decrementing the refcount of from/dev_start,
pci_get_subsys() decrementing 'from', or by bus_find_device()
decrementing 'start'.  It looks like bus_find_device() is the place
where this should logically happen, but the kerneldoc doesn't document
the intended behaviour.

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