Re: [PATCH] scsi: bsg: Fix device unregistration

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On 9/8/21 9:46 PM, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> We use device_initialize() to take refcount for the device but forget to
> put_device() on device teardown, which ends up leaking private data of the
> driver core, dev_name(), etc. This is reported by kmemleak at boot time if
> we compile kernel with DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE.
> 
> Note that adding the missing put_device() is _not_ sufficient to fix device
> unregistration. As we don't provide the .release() method for device, which
> turned out to be typically wrong and will be complained loudly by the
> driver core.
> 
> Fix both of them.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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