[dm-devel] [PATCH] kobject: provide kobject_put_wait to fix module unload race

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Sun Jan 5 16:43:56 UTC 2014


On 01/04/14 19:06, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> -	if (t && !t->release)
> -		pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): does not have a release() "
> -			 "function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n",
> -			 kobject_name(kobj), kobj);
> -

Has it been considered to issue a warning if no release function has
been defined and free_completion == NULL instead of removing the above
debug message entirely ? I think even with this patch applied it is
still wrong to invoke kobject_put() on an object without defining a
release function.

Thanks,

Bart.




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