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| author | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-08-21 13:47:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> | 2008-08-21 15:22:46 -0700 |
| commit | ebca4f1bce1eb7b91a63c515db66316db9391221 (patch) | |
| tree | dd65b7eb4437bca869fc1f6c792e4e43684a1f1e /drivers/video/fb_draw.h | |
| parent | d6a9e9b40be7da84f82eb414c2ad98c5bb69986b (diff) | |
PCI: fix reference leak in pci_get_dev_by_id()
Alex Chiang and Matthew Wilcox pointed out that pci_get_dev_by_id() does
not properly decrement the reference on the from pointer if it is
present, like the documentation for the function states it will.
It fixes a pretty bad leak in the hotplug core (we were leaking an
entire struct pci_dev for each function of each offlined card, the first
time around; subsequent onlines/offlines were ok).
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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