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authorThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>2017-03-06 08:19:27 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-04-08 18:38:10 +0200
commitfd0f50db2eb72555ef8f70af14c1e3ee2079b32c (patch)
tree12d91d68f5ad378b5fca11f105058534171a9d48 /Documentation/kref.txt
parent35dbf4efb044fbe4096a5edbb449e894aca9ef50 (diff)
Revert "kref: double kref_put() in my_data_handler()"
This reverts commit 8f1ecc9fbc5b223e4f5d5bb8bcd6f5672c4bc4b6. The correction is incorrect, see discussion at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20093127/why-kref-doc-of-linux-kernel-omits-kref-put-when-kthread-run-fail Reported-by: KrishnamRaju raju <ekraju@gmail.com> Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: KrishnamRaju raju <ekraju@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kref.txt b/Documentation/kref.txt
index ddf85a5dde0c..d26a27ca964d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kref.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ int my_data_handler(void)
task = kthread_run(more_data_handling, data, "more_data_handling");
if (task == ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) {
rv = -ENOMEM;
+ kref_put(&data->refcount, data_release);
goto out;
}