Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:44:48 -0700 | From | Chris Leech <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: scsi_transport_iscsi: use put_device() instead of kfree() |
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 05:07:33PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote: > Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even > if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the > reference initialized. > > Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) >
> @@ -783,7 +781,7 @@ struct iscsi_iface * > > free_iface: > put_device(iface->dev.parent); > - kfree(iface); > + put_device(&iface->dev); > return NULL; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iscsi_create_iface);
Am I reading the device code correctly that the parent reference is only released in the unregister path (device_unregister calls device_del) and so the manual put_device on the parent here is still correct?
Just want to make sure that's still needed with the call to put_device.
Other than that question, I this all looks good. Thanks.
Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>
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