[PATCH] kobject: fix double kobject_put in kobject_unregister()

From: Keshavamurthy Anil S
Date: Wed Nov 10 2004 - 17:26:25 EST


Hi Greg,

This patch fixes the problem where in kobject resources were getting
freed when those kobject were still in use due to double kobject_put()
getting called in the kobject_unregister() code path.

With out this patch kobject_unregister() will have some serious side effects.

Please apply.

signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx>


linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm4-askeshav/lib/kobject.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN lib/kobject.c~kobject_unregister_fix lib/kobject.c
--- linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm4/lib/kobject.c~kobject_unregister_fix 2004-11-10 13:43:42.243877455 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm4-askeshav/lib/kobject.c 2004-11-10 13:46:30.788797265 -0800
@@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ void kobject_del(struct kobject * kobj)
{
kobject_hotplug(kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);
+
+ /* unlink does kobject_put() for us */
unlink(kobj);
}

@@ -313,7 +315,6 @@ void kobject_unregister(struct kobject *
{
pr_debug("kobject %s: unregistering\n",kobject_name(kobj));
kobject_del(kobj);
- kobject_put(kobj);
}

/**
_
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