On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 17:34 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 08:31:48AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > This analysis fails here: get_device() on something with refcount 0 > > returns NULL. That triggers the if clause to ignore this device. > > No, it doesn't. Take a look at the get_device and kobject_get > implementations,
Hm, so why doesn't get_device use kref_get_unless_zero()? James
