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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: add per pci device msi[x] irq listing (v2)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:23:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110916132319.GC8973@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110916105716.GA32672@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:57:16AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:08:38PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > +static struct kobj_type msi_irq_ktype = {
> > > +	.sysfs_ops = &msi_irq_sysfs_ops,
> > > +	.default_attrs = msi_irq_default_attrs,
> > > +};
> > 
> > You still haven't successfully removed the kobject associated with this
> > kobj_type.  Otherwise you would have seen the error messages in the
> > kernel log and fixed up what it told you to fix.
> > 
> > Please do so.
> > 
> Well, I'm not using kobject_del, you're right, I'm just using a kobject_put, and
> I swear I'm not getting any error messages about it:

Then you really are not ever freeing that kobject, so there's a
reference counting bug in your code which you need to fix.

You will notice the real problem once you try to finally release that
kobject, trust me :)

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-16 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-14 18:36 [PATCH] sysfs: add per pci device msi[x] irq listing Neil Horman
2011-09-15 14:40 ` Greg KH
2011-09-15 15:07   ` Neil Horman
2011-09-15 20:08 ` [PATCH] sysfs: add per pci device msi[x] irq listing (v2) Neil Horman
2011-09-16  8:36   ` Greg KH
2011-09-16 10:57     ` Neil Horman
2011-09-16 13:23       ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-09-16 13:32         ` Neil Horman
2011-09-16 16:12           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-09-19 15:47 ` [PATCH] sysfs: add per pci device msi[x] irq listing (v3) Neil Horman
2011-09-19 17:14   ` Greg KH
2011-09-19 17:33     ` Neil Horman
2011-09-22 10:49   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-22 10:57     ` Neil Horman
2011-09-22 11:10       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-22 13:21         ` Neil Horman
2011-09-22 13:17     ` Neil Horman
2011-09-22 13:54   ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-09-22 14:32     ` Neil Horman
2011-09-28 22:18       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-09-29  0:42         ` Neil Horman
2011-09-29  4:40           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-09-29 13:07             ` Neil Horman
2011-09-29 14:38 ` [PATCH] sysfs: add per pci device msi[x] irq listing (v4) Neil Horman
2011-09-29 14:51   ` Greg KH
2011-09-30 12:32   ` Stefan Richter
2011-09-30 15:33     ` Neil Horman
2011-09-30 16:33       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-09-30 16:54         ` Neil Horman
2011-10-06 15:36           ` Jesse Barnes
2011-10-06 17:12             ` Neil Horman
2011-10-06 17:57               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-10-06 18:08                 ` [PATCH] sysfs: add per pci device msi[x] irq listing (v5) Neil Horman
2011-10-14 16:21                   ` Jesse Barnes
2011-10-14 16:40                     ` Greg KH
2011-10-14 17:31                     ` Neil Horman
2011-11-01 16:47                     ` Neil Horman
2011-11-01 16:58                       ` Jesse Barnes
2011-11-01 18:05                         ` Neil Horman

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