On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 5:34 PM Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 06.08.2019, 10:19 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern: > > In any case, I don't know if this missing "get" would cause the > > problem, but it might well. > > Hi, > > upon further thought, this should be automated. Checking for > refcount leaks is KASAN's job. In particular, refcounts > should not > > * decrease in probe() > * increase in disconnect() > * change in case probe() fails It's probably a job for some other refcount debugging tool, but yes, it would be nice to have a detector for this kind of stuff. It will probably require some annotations in each place we want this kind of checks to be performed. > > Regards > Oliver >
