From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@kernel.org, Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: Fixing drivers/pci/search.c compilation warning.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:24:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810211024.31037.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081021011308.GA3889@parisc-linux.org>
On Monday, October 20, 2008 6:13 pm Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Subject: [PCI] Fix reference counting bug
>
> pci_get_subsys() will decrement the reference count of the device that
> it starts searching from. Unfortunately, the pci_find_device() interface
> will already have decremented the reference count of the device earlier,
> so the device will end up losing all reference counts and be freed.
>
> We can fix this by incrementing the reference count of the device to
> start searching from before calling pci_get_subsys().
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Applied, thanks Matthew.
Jesse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <b9df5fa10809280816u23ef3021k7eee287a237b72ae@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-28 16:32 ` [PATCH] pci: Fixing drivers/pci/search.c compilation warning Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-21 1:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-21 1:29 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-21 17:24 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2008-10-26 12:51 ` Yu Zhao
2008-10-26 18:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-27 3:18 ` Zhao, Yu
2008-10-27 7:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-27 7:13 ` Zhao, Yu
2008-10-27 7:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-27 7:34 ` Zhao, Yu
2008-10-27 7:43 ` Zhao, Yu
2008-10-27 7:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
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