Re: [PATCH] sysfs: add per pci device msi[x] irq listing (v2)

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:57:16AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:08:38PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > +static struct kobj_type msi_irq_ktype = {
> > > +	.sysfs_ops = &msi_irq_sysfs_ops,
> > > +	.default_attrs = msi_irq_default_attrs,
> > > +};
> > 
> > You still haven't successfully removed the kobject associated with this
> > kobj_type.  Otherwise you would have seen the error messages in the
> > kernel log and fixed up what it told you to fix.
> > 
> > Please do so.
> > 
> Well, I'm not using kobject_del, you're right, I'm just using a kobject_put, and
> I swear I'm not getting any error messages about it:

Then you really are not ever freeing that kobject, so there's a
reference counting bug in your code which you need to fix.

You will notice the real problem once you try to finally release that
kobject, trust me :)

greg k-h
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