Re: [char-misc-next V3] mei: add reference counting for me clients

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> To support dynamic addition/remove we add reference
> counter.

What is keeping two different threads / cpus from grabbing a reference
at the same time the other one is dropping it?

You have a list here, with no locking, right?  You also don't have any
locking for your kref, which isn't good at all...

Please audit and fix up.

thanks,

greg k-h
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