On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:50 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > >>+ class_device_put(&sdev->sdev_classdev); > > > > This is unnecessary since the class device is simply occupying a private > > area in the scsi_device. As long as its never made visible to the > > system, its refcount is irrelevant > > > It's not. Whenever you try to rmmod the adapter it becomes highly > relevant. If it doesn't crash you've at least generated a memleak as the > class device is never freed. > (And these are quite a few for Wide-SCSI Double-channel adapters ...) ? Look at the code; you're not doing a put on a pointer to the sdev_classdev, you're doing a put on a reference to it. It's defined in scsi_device.h: struct scsi_device { ... struct class_device sdev_classdev; ... }; so it's contained within the scsi_device. Freeing the scsi_device frees the classdev (and the gendev). James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html