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PCI: fix reference leak in pci_get_dev_by_id() 

Alex Chiang and Matthew Wilcox pointed out that pci_get_dev_by_id() does
not properly decrement the reference on the from pointer if it is
present, like the documentation for the function states it will.

It fixes a pretty bad leak in the hotplug core (we were leaking an
entire struct pci_dev for each function of each offlined card, the first
time around; subsequent onlines/offlines were ok).

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Greg KH 2008-08-21 13:47:58 -07:00 committed by Jesse Barnes
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@ -280,6 +280,8 @@ static struct pci_dev *pci_get_dev_by_id(const struct pci_device_id *id,
match_pci_dev_by_id); match_pci_dev_by_id);
if (dev) if (dev)
pdev = to_pci_dev(dev); pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
if (from)
pci_dev_put(from);
return pdev; return pdev;
} }