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author | Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> | 2015-01-02 14:47:40 -0500 |
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committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2015-01-06 16:35:36 +0200 |
commit | 63bd62a08ca45a0c804c3c89777edc7f76a2d6da (patch) | |
tree | 4e7c1e3590d1ca21715a00930c1554c4a5eac8cf /drivers/spi/spi-bcm53xx.c | |
parent | 945399a8c78ac225cdbaece0f94c0d8741b4e1d8 (diff) | |
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virtio_pci: defer kfree until release callback
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>
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