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locking/atomic, kref: Avoid more abuse 

Leak references by unbalanced get, instead of poking at kref
implementation details.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra 2016-11-14 18:25:17 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 6b1ffa06e5
commit 3efb772c85
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drivers/usb/mon/mon_main.c
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@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static void __exit mon_exit(void)
printk(KERN_ERR TAG
": Outstanding opens (%d) on usb%d, leaking...\n",
mbus->nreaders, mbus->u_bus->busnum);
atomic_set(&mbus->ref.refcount, 2); /* Force leak */
kref_get(&mbus->ref); /* Force leak */
}
mon_dissolve(mbus, mbus->u_bus);