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authorSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2015-01-02 20:47:40 +0100
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2015-01-06 15:35:36 +0100
commit63bd62a08ca45a0c804c3c89777edc7f76a2d6da (patch)
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parentvirtio_pci: device-specific release callback (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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