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Frank A. Uepping authored
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:14, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:47:24PM +0100, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > > Hi, > > if device_add fails (e.g. bus_add_device returns an error) then the release > > method will be called for the device. Is this a bug or a feature? > > Are you sure this will happen? device_initialize() gets a reference > that is still present after device_add() fails, right? So release() > will not get called. At the label PMError, kobject_unregister is called, which decrements the recount by 2, which will result in calling release at label Done (put_device). kobject_unregister should be superseded by kobject_del. Here is a patch:
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