Re: [RFD driver-core] Lifetime problems of the current driver model

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 11:32:59 EST


On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:20:48 +0200,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Cool. However, there's something fishy there (not sure whether it's in
> your patch or a latent bug in the ccw bus code that just has been
> uncovered):

Similar bug when loading/unloading a module that creates a driver
attribute. The winner seems to be kfree(sd->s_element) in
release_sysfs_dirent() (in case of an attribute, it will point to the
attribute structure, which is usually statically created)...
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