On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:06:18PM +0200, Elena Reshetova wrote: > > @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ debug_info_create(const char *name, int pages_per_area, int nr_areas, > > debug_area_last = rc; > > rc->next = NULL; > > > > - debug_info_get(rc); > > + refcount_set(&rc->ref_count, 1); > > This is not wrong, but I will remove this hunk before applying your patch, > since this doesn't look like an obvious correct change at first glance. I suspect; but have not looked at the code; that this would otherwise attempt to do a 0 -> 1 increment, which refcount_inc() will refuse (and WARN) over.