Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: reboot_fixup_32.c add missing pci_dev_put

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 12/02/2009 02:09 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> pci_get_device increments reference count to the found pci device, 
>> that should be decremented using pci_dev_put.
> 
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot_fixups_32.c
>> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ void mach_reboot_fixups(void)
>>  			continue;
>>  
>>  		cur->reboot_fixup(dev);
>> +		pci_dev_put(dev);
> 
> Does this matter in practice? We are about to reboot. (but if it's 
> cleaner to do it like this or if there's some real bug fixed by this 
> then please spell it out in the changelog.)
> 

Even if it doesn't actually matter, doing things cleanly makes it easier
to handle failure scenarios, possibly that are discovered in the future.

	-hpa

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