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Subject[PATCH 2/3] virtio_pci: defer kfree until release callback
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

A struct device which has just been unregistered can live on past the
point at which a driver decides to drop it's initial reference to the
kobject gained on allocation.

This implies that when releasing a virtio device, we can't free a struct
virtio_device until the underlying struct device has been released,
which might not happen immediately on device_unregister().

Unfortunately, this is exactly what virtio pci does:
it has an empty release callback, and frees memory immediately
after unregistering the device.

This causes an easy to reproduce crash if CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
it enabled.

To fix, free the memory only once we know the device is gone in the release
callback.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c
index 08d1915..4beaee3 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c
@@ -213,11 +213,10 @@ static const struct virtio_config_ops virtio_pci_config_ops = {

static void virtio_pci_release_dev(struct device *_d)
{
- /*
- * No need for a release method as we allocate/free
- * all devices together with the pci devices.
- * Provide an empty one to avoid getting a warning from core.
- */
+ struct virtio_device *vdev = dev_to_virtio(_d);
+ struct virtio_pci_device *vp_dev = to_vp_device(vdev);
+
+ kfree(vp_dev);
}

/* the PCI probing function */
@@ -311,5 +310,4 @@ void virtio_pci_legacy_remove(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
pci_iounmap(pci_dev, vp_dev->ioaddr);
pci_release_regions(pci_dev);
pci_disable_device(pci_dev);
- kfree(vp_dev);
}
--
MST


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