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 <[email protected]> Cc: Roel Kluin <[email protected]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: KrishnamRaju raju <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <[email protected]> --- Documentation/kref.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) 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; } -- 2.4.11
