[PATCH] cxl: Fix reference count on struct pid when attaching

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Fri Oct 30 11:31:02 AEDT 2015


On 29/10/15 23:39, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> When the cxl driver creates a context, it stores the pid of the
> calling task, incrementing the reference count on the struct
> pid. Current code mistakenly increments the reference count twice,
> once through get_task_pid(), once through get_pid(). The reference
> count is only decremented once on detach, thus the struct pid of the
> task attaching is never freed. The fix is to simply remove the call to
> get_pid().
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <frederic.barrat at fr.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

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