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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/3] msi: free msi_desc entry only after we've released the kobject
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:30:30AM +0100, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> Currently, we first do kobject_put(&entry->kobj) and the kfree(entry),
> however kobject_put() doesn't guarantee us that it was the last reference
> and that the kobj isn't used currently by someone else, so after we
> kfree(entry) with the struct kobject - other users will begin using the
> freed memory, instead of the actual kobject.
>
> Fix this by using the kobject->release callback, which is called last when
> the kobject is indeed not used and is cleaned up - it's msi_kobj_release(),
> which can do the kfree(entry) safely (kobject_put/cleanup doesn't use the
> kobj itself after ->release() was called, so we're safe).
>
> In case we've failed to create the sysfs directories - just kfree()
> it - cause we don't have the kobjects attached.
>
> Also, remove the same functionality from populate_msi_sysfs(), cause on
> failure we anyway call free_msi_irqs(), which will take care of all the
> kobjects properly.
>
> And add the forgotten pci_dev_put(pdev) in case of failure to register the
> kobject in populate_msi_sysfs().
>
> CC: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> CC: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>



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