[PATCH 13/17] nvme: track subsystems

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Oct 19 00:14:05 PDT 2017


> I'm having some trouble with this one. The device_initialize() initializes
> the kobj's reference counter, and then the device_add() takes another
> reference on it.
> 
> The teardown, though, only calls put_device(). Where's the call to
> device_del() supposed to go that ultimately drops the last reference
> to call the .release 'nvme_free_subsystem'?

Yes, this is buggy.  I took the code from Hannes patches without
retesting a module unload.  I'll go back to the drawing board.



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