Re: Question about (or bug in?) the kobject implementation

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 03:06:32PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> > Seriously, once kobject_del() is called, you can't safely call
> > kobject_get() anymore on that object.
> 
> Are you worried about the possibility of the refcount dropping to 0 and 
> the cleanup starting but then kobject_get() increasing the refcount again?

Exactly, that is where the problem could happen.

thanks,

greg k-h
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