> 
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > To support dynamic addition/remove we add reference
> > counter.
> 
> What is keeping two different threads / cpus from grabbing a reference
> at the same time the other one is dropping it?
> 
> You have a list here, with no locking, right?  You also don't have any
> locking for your kref, which isn't good at all...
> 
> Please audit and fix up.

Of course there is a lock, it wouldn't work at all. It is not explicit but we 
run under device_lock mutex. 

Tomas

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