From 735f7d2fedf57380214221be7bed7f62d729e262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:59:47 -0800 Subject: [SCSI] libsas: fix domain_device leak Arrange for the deallocation of a struct domain_device object when it no longer has: 1/ any children 2/ references by any scsi_targets 3/ references by a lldd The comment about domain_device lifetime in Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt is stale as it appears mainline never had a version of a struct domain_device that was registered as a kobject. We now manage domain_device reference counts on behalf of external agents. Reviewed-by: Jack Wang Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt b/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt index aa54f54c4a50..3cc9c7843e15 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt @@ -398,21 +398,6 @@ struct sas_task { task_done -- callback when the task has finished execution }; -When an external entity, entity other than the LLDD or the -SAS Layer, wants to work with a struct domain_device, it -_must_ call kobject_get() when getting a handle on the -device and kobject_put() when it is done with the device. - -This does two things: - A) implements proper kfree() for the device; - B) increments/decrements the kref for all players: - domain_device - all domain_device's ... (if past an expander) - port - host adapter - pci device - and up the ladder, etc. - DISCOVERY --------- -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b