i5000-edac: hold reference to mci kobject
It turns out that edac_mc_del_mc will kobject_put the last kref on the
mci object.
If the timing is just right, that means that the mci object is freed
before before i5000_remove_one has a chance to free the resources
associated with it, causing a null pointer exceptions when unloading the
driver. Insert a kobject_{get,put} pair so that this doesn't happen.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c b/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
index f0d9b41..d335086f 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@
if (mci == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
+ kobject_get(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
debugf0("MC: " __FILE__ ": %s(): mci = %p\n", __func__, mci);
mci->dev = &pdev->dev; /* record ptr to the generic device */
@@ -1453,6 +1454,7 @@
i5000_put_devices(mci);
fail0:
+ kobject_put(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
edac_mc_free(mci);
return -ENODEV;
}
@@ -1498,7 +1500,7 @@
/* retrieve references to resources, and free those resources */
i5000_put_devices(mci);
-
+ kobject_put(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
edac_mc_free(mci);
}