Thanks Gerald for reviewing and sorry for not elaborated it in the e-mail. Firstly, I think you can't call module_put after fail try_module_get Secondly, there exists duplicate module_put on the program path (the last one is before return 0) On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:35:40 +0800 > Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> correct misuses of module_put in appldata_generic_handler > > Sorry, I don't see any misuse, could you elaborate? > >> >> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c | 3 --- >> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c b/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c >> index 47c8630..683e0282 100644 >> --- a/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c >> +++ b/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c >> @@ -343,7 +343,6 @@ appldata_generic_handler(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, >> // protect work queue callback >> if (!try_module_get(ops->owner)) { >> mutex_unlock(&appldata_ops_mutex); >> - module_put(ops->owner); >> return -ENODEV; >> } >> ops->callback(ops->data); // init record >> @@ -354,7 +353,6 @@ appldata_generic_handler(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, >> if (rc != 0) { >> pr_err("Starting the data collection for %s " >> "failed with rc=%d\n", ops->name, rc); >> - module_put(ops->owner); >> } else >> ops->active = 1; >> } else if ((buf[0] == '0') && (ops->active == 1)) { >> @@ -365,7 +363,6 @@ appldata_generic_handler(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, >> if (rc != 0) >> pr_err("Stopping the data collection for %s " >> "failed with rc=%d\n", ops->name, rc); >> - module_put(ops->owner); >> } >> mutex_unlock(&appldata_ops_mutex); >> out: > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html