Re: [PATCH v4 06/25] ibtrs: client: main functionality

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 8:55 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/19 10:36 AM, Danil Kipnis wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:51 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 6/20/19 8:03 AM, Jack Wang wrote:
> >>> +static void ibtrs_clt_dev_release(struct device *dev)
> >>> +{
> >>> +     /* Nobody plays with device references, so nop */
> >>> +}
> >>
> >> That comment sounds wrong. Have you reviewed all of the device driver
> >> core code and checked that there is no code in there that manipulates
> >> struct device refcounts? I think the code that frees struct ibtrs_clt
> >> should be moved from free_clt() into the above function.
> >
> > We only use the device to create an entry under /sys/class. free_clt()
> > is destroying sysfs first and unregisters the device afterwards. I
> > don't really see the need to free from the callback instead... Will
> > make it clear in the comment.
>
> There is plenty of code under drivers/base that calls get_device() and
> put_device(). Are you sure that none of the code under drivers/base will
> ever call get_device() and put_device() for the ibtrs client device?
You mean how could multiple kernel modules share the same ibtrs
session...? I really never thought that far...

> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>



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