i5000-edac: hold reference to mci kobject

It turns out that edac_mc_del_mc will kobject_put the last kref on the
mci object.

If the timing is just right, that means that the mci object is freed
before before i5000_remove_one has a chance to free the resources
associated with it, causing a null pointer exceptions when unloading the
driver.  Insert a kobject_{get,put} pair so that this doesn't happen.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c b/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
index f0d9b415db50..d335086f4a26 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@ static int i5000_probe1(struct pci_dev *pdev, int dev_idx)
         if (mci == NULL)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
+        kobject_get(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
         debugf0("MC: " __FILE__ ": %s(): mci = %p\n", __func__, mci);
 
         mci->dev = &pdev->dev;  /* record ptr  to the generic device */
@@ -1453,6 +1454,7 @@ fail1:
         i5000_put_devices(mci);
 
 fail0:
+        kobject_put(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
         edac_mc_free(mci);
         return -ENODEV;
 }
@@ -1498,7 +1500,7 @@ static void __devexit i5000_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 
         /* retrieve references to resources, and free those resources */
         i5000_put_devices(mci);
-
+        kobject_put(&mci->edac_mci_kobj);
         edac_mc_free(mci);
 }