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Revert "kref: double kref_put() in my_data_handler()"

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This reverts commit 8f1ecc9fbc.

The correction is incorrect, see discussion at

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20093127/why-kref-doc-of-linux-kernel-omits-kref-put-when-kthread-run-fail

Reported-by: KrishnamRaju raju <ekraju@gmail.com>
Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: KrishnamRaju raju <ekraju@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Thomas Hellstrom 2017-03-06 08:19:27 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ int my_data_handler(void)
task = kthread_run(more_data_handling, data, "more_data_handling");
if (task == ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) {
rv = -ENOMEM;
kref_put(&data->refcount, data_release);
goto out;
}