Subject: Re: gigaset: freeing an active object

From: Tilman Schmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:38:05 +0100

Am 29.11.2015 um 19:22 schrieb Peter Hurley:
> On 11/29/2015 10:30 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> Judging from the backtrace below this must be the call
>>
>>         kfree(cs->hw.ser);
>>
>> in drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c line 375.
>> cs->hw.ser is of type struct ser_cardstate *.
>> struct ser_cardstate consists of a struct platform_device, a struct
>> completion, an atomic_t and a pointer. No timer_list.
[...]
> 
> The platform_device embedded in struct ser_cardstate hasn't been released when
> you kfree() the memory it's in.

How so? The kfree() call quoted above is immediately preceded by:

        platform_device_unregister(&cs->hw.ser->dev);

Thanks,
Tilman

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Tilman Schmidt                              E-Mail: [email-masked]
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