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| author | Greg KH <[email protected]> | 2008-08-21 13:47:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Jesse Barnes <[email protected]> | 2008-08-21 15:22:46 -0700 |
| commit | ebca4f1bce1eb7b91a63c515db66316db9391221 (patch) | |
| tree | dd65b7eb4437bca869fc1f6c792e4e43684a1f1e /net/unix/sysctl_net_unix.c | |
| 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 <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Alex Chiang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alex Chiang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/unix/sysctl_net_unix.c')
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