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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-08-21 08:52:41 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-10-24 11:20:41 -0200
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i7core_edac: Avoid PCI refcount to reach zero on successive load/reload
That's a nasty bug that took me a lot of time to track, and whose solution took just one line to solve. The best fragrances and the worse poisons are shipped on the smalest bottles. The drivers/pci/quick.c implements the pci_get_device function. The normal behavior is that you call it, the function returns you a pdev pointer and increment pdev->kobj.kref.refcount of the pci device. However, if you want to keep searching an object, you need to pass the previous pdev function to the search. When you use a not null pointer to pdev "from" field, pci_get_device will decrement pdev->kobj.kref.refcount, assuming that the driver won't be using the previous pdev. The solution is simple: we just need to call pci_dev_get() manually, for the pdev's that the driver will actually use. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c b/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c
index 9868796f4871..71f4dc699abe 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c
@@ -1395,6 +1395,13 @@ static int i7core_get_onedevice(struct pci_dev **prev,
dev_descr->func,
PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, dev_descr->dev_id);
+ /*
+ * As stated on drivers/pci/search.c, the reference count for
+ * @from is always decremented if it is not %NULL. So, as we need
+ * to get all devices up to null, we need to do a get for the device
+ */
+ pci_dev_get(pdev);
+
*prev = pdev;
return 0;