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firewire: cdev: reference-count client instances
authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:23:29 +0000 (16:23 +0100)
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:56:42 +0000 (20:56 +0100)
commitc7d79975da16d1e87ab7bfdc927d4977db7f8523
treed5def952cdb381863d7a2b7eb0e421d7757c7d4d
parentb8df2a13b6ff57bd8bd7eaaaec1dbdb61c090077
firewire: cdev: reference-count client instances

The lifetime of struct client instances must be longer than the lifetime
of any client resource.

This fixes a possible race between fw_device_op_release and transaction
completions.  It also prepares for new ioctls for isochronous resource
management which will involve delayed processing of client resources.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Reviewed-by: David Moore <dcm@acm.org>
drivers/firewire/fw-cdev.c