On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 10:08:10PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote: > Yes, but then device exit routine is supposed to do debugfs cleanup as > well, so that would ensure these references are dropped at that point of > time. Greg should that not take care of it or we *should* always do > refcounting.
Always do refcounting. How else can you "guarantee" that it is safe?