From f0f7e0dc7393268947dc3ed285defc3d375487b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:25:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Doug Thompson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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); } -- 2.7.4