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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Zhao, Yu" <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: refcount leak in pci_get_device()?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:37:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080830053755.GA16219@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7A25B56E4BE99C4283EB931CD1A40E110177E488@pdsmsx414.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:23:20PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote:
> And the pci_get_dev_by_id() is not safe again the PCI device removal.
> It might fire a warning in bus_find_device() when reference count of
> the knode_bus is decreased to 0 by pci_remove_bus().

Is this something new?  Hasn't this always been that way?  Why would you
be wanting to call this function anyway?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-30  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-21 20:19 refcount leak in pci_get_device()? Alex Chiang
2008-08-21 20:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-21 20:47   ` Greg KH
2008-08-21 22:14     ` Alex Chiang
2008-08-30  4:23       ` Zhao, Yu
2008-08-30  5:37         ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-08-30  6:20           ` Zhao, Yu
2008-08-31  3:14             ` problems in fakephp (was RE: refcount leak in pci_get_device()?) Zhao, Yu
2008-09-01 18:40               ` [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: fakephp: fix deadlock... again Alex Chiang
2008-09-02  0:10                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-02  0:19                   ` Alex Chiang
2008-09-09  4:12                     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-09-09  4:27                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-09  5:32                         ` Andrew Patterson
2008-09-04 15:03                 ` Zhao, Yu
2008-08-21 22:23     ` refcount leak in pci_get_device()? Jesse Barnes
2008-08-22  1:04       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-22  1:09         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-21 20:40 ` Greg KH

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