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From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: isdn@linux-pingi.de, davem@davemloft.net,
	gigaset307x-common@lists.sourceforge.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: gigaset: freeing an active object
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:30:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <565C95B7.7070001@imap.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1448906497.3546.16.camel@tiscali.nl>

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Am 30.11.2015 um 19:01 schrieb Paul Bolle:
> [DRAFT] gigaset: don't free() a struct platform_device
> 
> One is not supposed to free() a struct platform_device. Instead one
> should, in the common case, only call platform_device_unregister(). That
> will drop the platform device's reference count. (Actually it's the
> reference count of the embedded kobject that is important here. But for
> users of platform devices that's basically irrelevant.)
> 
> So move struct platform_device dev out of struct ser_cardstate, because
> ser_cardstate is (malloc'ed and) free'd.

I wonder how that will behave if someone attaches two of the devices to
different serial ports. Not likely, but not forbidden either.

Regards,
Tilman

-- 
Tilman Schmidt                              E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
Bonn, Germany
Nous, on a des fleurs et des bougies pour nous protéger.


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-30 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-27 15:19 gigaset: freeing an active object Sasha Levin
2015-11-27 17:57 ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-27 18:15   ` Sasha Levin
2015-11-28  0:28     ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-28  1:20       ` Peter Hurley
2015-11-28  1:27         ` Sasha Levin
2015-11-29 14:36           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2015-11-29 15:30 ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-11-29 18:22   ` Peter Hurley
2015-11-29 18:38     ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-11-29 18:47     ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-11-29 20:26       ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-29 23:23         ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-30 18:01           ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-30 18:30             ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2015-11-30 21:07               ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-01  9:30                 ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-12-01 10:05                   ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-02 23:48             ` Peter Hurley
2015-12-06 13:31               ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-06 15:29                 ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-12-06 20:12                   ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-07  9:27                     ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-12-07 12:25                       ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-07 18:40                         ` Tilman Schmidt

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