Re: [patch] kobject: new_device->kref wasn't putted in kobject_move()

From: Dmitriy Monakhov
Date: Sat Mar 03 2007 - 08:11:28 EST


Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxx> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
> index b94f208..b11f7b2 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
> @@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ int kobject_move(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *new_parent)
> kobject_put(old_parent);
> kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_MOVE, envp);
> out:
> + kobject_put(new_parent);
> kobject_put(kobj);
> kfree(devpath_string);
> kfree(devpath);
OOps i'm realy sorry, by occasion patch was incomplete :(
The updated patch version following:

[PATCH] kobject: new_device->kref wasn't putted after error in kobject_move()
If error happen we jump to "out" label, in this case new_device not yet
became the parent but it wasn't putted.

Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index b94f208..a6c9a06 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -429,9 +429,11 @@ int kobject_move(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *new_parent)
goto out;
old_parent = kobj->parent;
kobj->parent = new_parent;
+ new_parent = NULL;
kobject_put(old_parent);
kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_MOVE, envp);
out:
+ kobject_put(new_parent);
kobject_put(kobj);
kfree(devpath_string);
kfree(devpath);


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