Re: [PATCH 05/38] sparc: kernel: add missing put_device call

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Dec 27 2013 - 12:43:17 EST


From: Levente Kurusa <levex@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:03:16 +0100

> This is required so that we give up the last reference to the device.
> The kfree() has been removed because put_device will set the underlying kref's
> reference count to zero and hence vio_dev_release will get called resulting in
> kfreeing the structure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@xxxxxxxxx>

There is no reference held to vdev->dev at this point, that's why
we should directly kfree() it and put_device() is not appropriate.

Pretty much all of your patches have this problem.
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