From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753529AbdKMQQa (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:16:30 -0500 Received: from mail-pg0-f51.google.com ([74.125.83.51]:56959 "EHLO mail-pg0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753034AbdKMQQ2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:16:28 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMYE/HNMvVH0yG2Hzl3ONq0xyTaFdGx7GH2lRMKDh/u4OG5CLCrw8lQ0g2fyGaPC/q1m/OMR4Q== Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:16:26 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Dexuan Cui Cc: "'gregkh@linuxfoundation.org'" , "Stephen Hemminger" , KY Srinivasan , "'driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org'" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmbus: unregister device_obj->channels_kset Message-ID: <20171113081626.7a725831@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 01:53:33 +0000 Dexuan Cui wrote: > Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info") > > Without the patch, a device can't be thoroughly destroyed, because > vmbus_device_register() -> kset_create_and_add() still holds a reference > to the hv_device's device.kobj. > > Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui > Cc: Stephen Hemminger > Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan > --- Good catch Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger