Re: [PATCH] staging:iio: fix removal path to allow correct freeing.

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On 10/11/2011 11:50 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 10/10/11 17:41, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 10/10/11 16:17, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>> Fix a dumb lack of consideration of the effect of combining
>>> the iio_device_unregister and iio_free_device calls into
>>> one.  There is no valid place to free some of the sysfs
>>> array elements.
>> My continued testing indicates another dragon hiding somewhere.
>> It's of the that lovely type that causes segfaults scattered
>> all over the kernel.  Will continue tomorrow.
> One dragon found.  Stupid size of available_scanmasks bug
> on allocation in max1363.  I'll send a patch out later.
>
> Now I can hammer probe and remove without problem.
>
> Testing from others of this patch would be welcomed.
>
> Jonathan

It seems to work fine under normal conditions, but I'm wondering if it is
possible to create a sitution in which we still have reference to the iio
device pending when we unbind the parent device. In this case
iio_free_device
would be called before iio_release_device.

- Lars

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