Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:45:49 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix refcounting bug |
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:06:44AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > This patch (as832) fixes a newly-introduced bug in the driver core. > When a kobject is assigned to a kset, it must acquire a reference to > the kset. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> > > --- > > The bug was introduced in Kay's "unify /sys/class and /sys/bus at > /sys/subsystem" patch. > > I left the assignment of class_dev->kobj.parent as it was, although it is > not needed. The following call to kobject_add() will end up doing the > same thing. > > Alan Stern > > P.S.: Tracking down refcounting bugs is a real pain! I spent an entire > afternoon on this one... :-(
Thanks, I've merged your patch with the one from Kay so we don't introduce a bug along the way.
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