Here is a crude attempt fix race the way suggested by Greg, probably done wrong but hopefully in the right direction.
1. move "crash_notes" to static attributes to guarantee that it's destroyed with CPU on unregister. 2. fixes race between hotplugged CPU and onlining it via udev, described here https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/193 Igor Mammedov (2): cpu: fix crash_notes leak cpu: make sure that cpu/online file created before KOBJ_ADD is emitted drivers/base/cpu.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

