On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 02:57:22PM +0530, Md Haris Iqbal wrote:
> There are error cases when we will call free_srv before device kobject is
> initialized; in such cases calling put_device generates the following
> warning,
>
> kobject: '(null)' (000000009f5445ed): is not initialized, yet
> kobject_put() is being called.
>
> It was suggested by Jason to call device_initialize() sooner.
>
> So call device_initialize() only once when the server is allocated. If we
> end up calling put_srv() and subsequently free_srv(), our call to
> put_device() would result in deletion of the obj. Call device_add() later
> when we actually have a connection. Correspondingly, call device_del()
> instead of device_unregister() when srv->dev_ref falls to 0.
>
> Fixes: 9cb837480424 ("RDMA/rtrs: server: main functionality")
> Signed-off-by: Md Haris Iqbal <haris.iqbal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c | 8 ++++----
> drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Applied to for-rc, thanks
Jason
