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SubjectRe: kref refcounting breakage in mainline
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On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:25 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> Mike, I've reverted this patch, and I don't see any references leaking.
> And, as your patch released the reference on the driver, and the
> module_add_driver() call would not grab a reference to the driver, only
> the module kobject, I don't see what you were trying to fix with this
> patch.
>
> Do you have a test case that this fixes?

What it fixed for me was the hard hang reported below.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/96


-Mike


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