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author | Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> | 2008-01-21 16:09:44 +0100 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-01-24 20:40:44 -0800 |
commit | 63b6971a0876b744e2fcf3c9df15d130501e1deb (patch) | |
tree | e5d89795dbcbc49e5685bd99a15700e58c53d95f /include/linux/device.h | |
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Driver core: Cleanup get_device_parent() in device_add() and device_move()
Make setup_parent() void as get_device_parent() will always return
either a valid kobject or NULL.
Introduce cleanup_glue_dir() to drop reference grabbed on "glue"
directory by get_device_parent(). Use it for cleanup in device_move()
and device_add() on errors.
This should fix the refcounting problem reported in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120052487909200&w=2
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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