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

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 1:21 AM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/19 3:53 PM, Danil Kipnis wrote:
> > Oh, you mean we just need stub functions for those, so that nobody
> > steps on a null?
>
> What I meant is that the memory that is backing a device must not be
> freed until the reference count of a device has dropped to zero. If a
> struct device is embedded in a larger structure that means signaling a
> completion from inside the release function (ibtrs_clt_dev_release())
> and not freeing the struct device memory (kfree(clt) in free_clt())
> before that completion has been triggered.

Got it, thank you. Will move free_clt into the release function.



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