On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:46:07AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > From: Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > When a DMA device is unregistered, its reference count is decremented > twice for each channel: Once dma_class_dev_release() and once in > dma_chan_cleanup(). This may result in the DMA device driver's > remove() function completing before all channels have been cleaned > up, causing lots of use-after-free fun. > > Fix it by incrementing the device's reference count twice for each > channel during registration. > > Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kill unnecessary client refcounting] > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't see this in Linus's tree yet, right? When it goes in, can you resend it to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] people? thanks, greg k-h - 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/
