Re: [PATCH 05/12] VMCI: event handling implementation.

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 22:23:42 EST


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:04:27PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> +/*
> + * Releases the given VMCISubscription.
> + * Fires the destroy event if the reference count has gone to zero.
> + */
> +static void event_release(struct vmci_subscription *entry)
> +{
> + kref_put(&entry->kref, event_signal_destroy);
> +}

Same question as before with the kref_put() call, what is handling the
locking here? It looks like a race to me.

thanks,

greg k-h
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