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SubjectRe: [PATCH] pci: Fixing drivers/pci/search.c compilation warning.
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:18:43AM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote:
>> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> Yes, that's why pci_find_device() is deprecated. But it doesn't also
>>> need to be buggy ;-)
>> How about pci_get_bus_and_slot()? People would meet the problem with it
>> anyway.
>
> What problem with it? It's documented to return the device with an
> increased refcount, and the implementation appears to do exactly that:
>
> struct pci_dev * pci_get_bus_and_slot(unsigned int bus, unsigned int devfn)
> {
> struct pci_dev *dev = NULL;
>
> while ((dev = pci_get_device(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, dev)) != NULL) {
> if (pci_domain_nr(dev->bus) == 0 &&
> (dev->bus->number == bus && dev->devfn == devfn))
> return dev;
> }
> return NULL;
> }
>
> Are you saying some users of it neglect to decrement the refcount before
> disposing of the device?
>

The 'dev' returned by pci_get_device() may be destroyed by PCI hotplug.
I suppose that passing this 'dev' to pci_get_device() in the next loop
would crash the system, right?


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