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

[Keshavamurthy Anil S]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:30:16PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:19:23PM -0800, Keshavamurthy Anil S wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Isn't it intended that, after an sysfs/kobject/device object is
> unregistered that the thread doing the unregistering must not
> dereference the memory associated with that object?
Yes, nobody is touching the resource once it is freed. But because of
double kobject_put() getting called in the kobject_unregister() code patch
I am seeing successive parent's kobject_unregister() causing panic as that kobject's
kobject_cleanup() gets called when childs kobject_unregiser() is getting called.
i.e patern's kobject_cleanup() gets called for some reason when clild's kobject_unregister()
is called. My patch fixes this issues.



> 
> IOW, the sequence:
> 
> 	allocate
> 	register	(refcount >= 2 after this completes)
> 	unregister
> 
> will automatically free the object once the last user has gone.
> 
> -- 
> Russell King
>  Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
>  maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
>                  2.6 Serial core
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