From: NeilBrown Thanks Greg. Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/md/md.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-fix-ref-counting-problems-with-kobjects-in-md drivers/md/md.c --- 25/drivers/md/md.c~md-fix-ref-counting-problems-with-kobjects-in-md Fri Oct 14 14:15:49 2005 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c Fri Oct 14 14:15:49 2005 @@ -805,7 +805,11 @@ static void super_90_sync(mddev_t *mddev if (fixdesc & (1<desc_nr)) { snprintf(rdev2->kobj.name, KOBJ_NAME_LEN, "dev%d", rdev2->desc_nr); + /* kobject_add gets a ref on the parent, so + * we have to drop the one we already have + */ kobject_add(&rdev2->kobj); + kobject_put(rdev->kobj.parent); sysfs_create_link(&rdev2->kobj, &rdev2->bdev->bd_disk->kobj, "block"); @@ -1178,7 +1182,7 @@ static int bind_rdev_to_array(mdk_rdev_t rdev->kobj.k_name = NULL; snprintf(rdev->kobj.name, KOBJ_NAME_LEN, "dev%d", rdev->desc_nr); - rdev->kobj.parent = kobject_get(&mddev->kobj); + rdev->kobj.parent = &mddev->kobj; kobject_add(&rdev->kobj); sysfs_create_link(&rdev->kobj, &rdev->bdev->bd_disk->kobj, "block"); @@ -1864,7 +1868,7 @@ static struct kobject *md_probe(dev_t de add_disk(disk); mddev->gendisk = disk; up(&disks_sem); - mddev->kobj.parent = kobject_get(&disk->kobj); + mddev->kobj.parent = &disk->kobj; mddev->kobj.k_name = NULL; snprintf(mddev->kobj.name, KOBJ_NAME_LEN, "%s", "md"); mddev->kobj.ktype = &md_ktype; diff -puN drivers/md/raid5.c~md-fix-ref-counting-problems-with-kobjects-in-md drivers/md/raid5.c --- 25/drivers/md/raid5.c~md-fix-ref-counting-problems-with-kobjects-in-md Fri Oct 14 14:15:49 2005 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/raid5.c Fri Oct 14 14:15:49 2005 @@ -1980,7 +1980,7 @@ memory = conf->max_nr_stripes * (sizeof( } /* Ok, everything is just fine now */ - conf->kobj.parent = kobject_get(&mddev->kobj); + conf->kobj.parent = &mddev->kobj; strcpy(conf->kobj.name, "raid5"); conf->kobj.ktype = &raid5_ktype; kobject_register(&conf->kobj); _