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| author | Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> | 2017-03-06 08:19:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-04-08 18:38:10 +0200 |
| commit | fd0f50db2eb72555ef8f70af14c1e3ee2079b32c (patch) | |
| tree | 12d91d68f5ad378b5fca11f105058534171a9d48 /Documentation/kref.txt | |
| parent | 35dbf4efb044fbe4096a5edbb449e894aca9ef50 (diff) | |
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Revert "kref: double kref_put() in my_data_handler()"
This reverts commit 8f1ecc9fbc5b223e4f5d5bb8bcd6f5672c4bc4b6.
The correction is incorrect, see discussion at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20093127/why-kref-doc-of-linux-kernel-omits-kref-put-when-kthread-run-fail
Reported-by: KrishnamRaju raju <ekraju@gmail.com>
Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: KrishnamRaju raju <ekraju@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kref.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kref.txt | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kref.txt b/Documentation/kref.txt index ddf85a5..d26a27c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kref.txt +++ b/Documentation/kref.txt @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ int my_data_handler(void) task = kthread_run(more_data_handling, data, "more_data_handling"); if (task == ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) { rv = -ENOMEM; + kref_put(&data->refcount, data_release); goto out; } |
