linux-stable/drivers/virtio
Wolfram Sang 97a2d55ead virtio-mmio: don't break lifecycle of vm_dev
[ Upstream commit 55c91fedd0 ]

vm_dev has a separate lifecycle because it has a 'struct device'
embedded. Thus, having a release callback for it is correct.

Allocating the vm_dev struct with devres totally breaks this protection,
though. Instead of waiting for the vm_dev release callback, the memory
is freed when the platform_device is removed. Resulting in a
use-after-free when finally the callback is to be called.

To easily see the problem, compile the kernel with
CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE and unbind with sysfs.

The fix is easy, don't use devres in this case.

Found during my research about object lifetime problems.

Fixes: 7eb781b1bb ("virtio_mmio: add cleanup for virtio_mmio_probe")
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Message-Id: <20230629120526.7184-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-08-30 16:31:47 +02:00
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Kconfig
Makefile
virtio.c virtio: acknowledge all features before access 2022-03-16 13:20:27 +01:00
virtio_balloon.c
virtio_input.c
virtio_mmio.c virtio-mmio: don't break lifecycle of vm_dev 2023-08-30 16:31:47 +02:00
virtio_pci_common.c virtio-pci: Remove wrong address verification in vp_del_vqs() 2022-06-25 11:49:17 +02:00
virtio_pci_common.h
virtio_pci_legacy.c
virtio_pci_modern.c
virtio_ring.c treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage 2023-08-11 11:45:01 +02:00