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authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>2008-11-12 13:25:36 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-11-12 17:17:16 -0800
commitf0f7e0dc7393268947dc3ed285defc3d375487b9 (patch)
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parentfe2d5ffc74a1de6a31e9fd65b65cce72d881edf7 (diff)
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i5000-edac: hold reference to mci kobject
It turns out that edac_mc_del_mc will kobject_put the last kref on the mci object. If the timing is just right, that means that the mci object is freed before before i5000_remove_one has a chance to free the resources associated with it, causing a null pointer exceptions when unloading the driver. Insert a kobject_{get,put} pair so that this doesn't happen. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/edac')
-rw-r--r--drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c b/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
index f0d9b41..d335086 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@ static int i5000_probe1(struct pci_dev *pdev, int dev_idx)
if (mci == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
+ kobject_get(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
debugf0("MC: " __FILE__ ": %s(): mci = %p\n", __func__, mci);
mci->dev = &pdev->dev; /* record ptr to the generic device */
@@ -1453,6 +1454,7 @@ fail1:
i5000_put_devices(mci);
fail0:
+ kobject_put(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
edac_mc_free(mci);
return -ENODEV;
}
@@ -1498,7 +1500,7 @@ static void __devexit i5000_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev)
/* retrieve references to resources, and free those resources */
i5000_put_devices(mci);
-
+ kobject_put(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
edac_mc_free(mci);
}