This patch (as832) fixes a newly-introduced bug in the driver core. When a kobject is assigned to a kset, it must acquire a reference to the kset.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- The bug was introduced in Kay's "unify /sys/class and /sys/bus at /sys/subsystem" patch. I left the assignment of class_dev->kobj.parent as it was, although it is not needed. The following call to kobject_add() will end up doing the same thing. Alan Stern P.S.: Tracking down refcounting bugs is a real pain! I spent an entire afternoon on this one... :-( Index: usb-2.6/drivers/base/class.c =================================================================== --- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/base/class.c +++ usb-2.6/drivers/base/class.c @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ int class_device_add(struct class_device class_dev->kobj.parent = &parent_class_dev->kobj; else { /* assign parent kset for uevent hook */ - class_dev->kobj.kset = &parent_class->devices_dir; + class_dev->kobj.kset = kset_get(&parent_class->devices_dir); /* the device directory in /sys/subsystem/<name>/devices */ class_dev->kobj.parent = &parent_class->devices_dir.kobj; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/