kernel_optimize_test/lib
Alan Stern 09f82ea928 Kobject: drop child->parent ref at unregistration
This patch (as1015) reverts changes that were made to the driver core
about four years ago.  The intent back then was to avoid certain kinds
of invalid memory accesses by leaving kernel objects allocated as long
as any of their children were still allocated.  The original and
correct approach was to wait only as long as any children were still
_registered_; that's what this patch reinstates.

This fixes a problem in the SCSI core made visible by the class_device
to regular device conversion: A reference loop (scsi_device holds
reference to request_queue, which is the child of a gendisk, which is
the child of the scsi_device) prevents the data structures from being
released, even though they are deregistered okay.

It's possible that this change will cause a few bugs to surface,
things that have been hidden for several years.  They can be fixed
easily enough by having the child device take an explicit reference to
the parent whenever needed.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:36 -08:00
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lzo
reed_solomon [MTD] [NAND] Replace -1 with -EBADMSG in nand error correction code 2007-10-20 22:30:54 +01:00
zlib_deflate
zlib_inflate
.gitignore
argv_split.c LIB: Replace inappropriate include of <linux/bug.h> 2007-10-20 00:26:10 +02:00
audit.c
bitmap.c Fix bitmap_scnlistprintf for empty masks 2007-11-05 15:12:32 -08:00
bitrev.c
bug.c
bust_spinlocks.c handle recursive calls to bust_spinlocks() 2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
check_signature.c
cmdline.c
cpumask.c
crc-ccitt.c
crc-itu-t.c
crc7.c
crc16.c
crc32.c Replace __attribute_pure__ with __pure 2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
crc32defs.h
ctype.c
debug_locks.c
dec_and_lock.c
devres.c
div64.c
dump_stack.c
extable.c
fault-inject.c
find_next_bit.c
gen_crc32table.c
genalloc.c
halfmd4.c
hexdump.c hexdump: don't print bytes with bit 7 set 2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
hweight.c remove asm/bitops.h includes 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
idr.c Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
inflate.c
int_sqrt.c
iomap_copy.c
iomap.c lib/iomap.c:bad_io_access(): print 0x hex prefix 2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
ioremap.c lib/ioremap.c should #include <linux/io.h> 2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
irq_regs.c
kasprintf.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug Blackfin arch: punt CONFIG_BFIN -- we already have CONFIG_BLACKFIN 2007-11-23 14:28:44 +08:00
kernel_lock.c spelling fixes: lib/ 2007-10-20 01:29:18 +02:00
klist.c
kobject_uevent.c kobject: clean up debugging messages 2008-01-24 20:40:26 -08:00
kobject.c Kobject: drop child->parent ref at unregistration 2008-01-24 20:40:36 -08:00
kref.c kref: add kref_set() 2008-01-24 20:40:05 -08:00
libcrc32c.c [LIB] crc32c: Keep intermediate crc state in cpu order 2007-11-08 21:34:09 +08:00
list_debug.c
locking-selftest-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-mutex.h
locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock.h
locking-selftest-rsem.h
locking-selftest-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin.h
locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock.h
locking-selftest-wsem.h
locking-selftest.c
Makefile lib: move bitmap.o from lib-y to obj-y. 2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
parser.c
percpu_counter.c Add irq protection in the percpu-counters cpu-hotplug-callback path 2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
plist.c
prio_heap.c Fix cpusets update_cpumask 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
prio_tree.c
proportions.c lib: proportion: fix underflow in prop_norm_percpu() 2007-12-23 12:54:37 -08:00
radix-tree.c avoid negative (and full-width) shifts in radix-tree.c 2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
random32.c
rbtree.c
reciprocal_div.c
rwsem-spinlock.c
rwsem.c sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profiling 2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
semaphore-sleepers.c
sha1.c
smp_processor_id.c
sort.c lib/sort.c optimization 2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
spinlock_debug.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
string.c
swiotlb.c Update swiotlb to use sg helpers 2007-10-22 21:19:58 +02:00
textsearch.c [TEXTSEARCH]: Do not allow zero length patterns in the textsearch infrastructure 2007-12-01 00:03:52 +11:00
ts_bm.c
ts_fsm.c
ts_kmp.c
vsprintf.c