From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] virtio: Don't access index after unregister.
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:43:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1352371427-32363-1-git-send-email-cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> (raw)
Virtio wants to release used indices after the corresponding
virtio device has been unregistered. However, virtio does not
hold an extra reference, giving up its last reference with
device_unregister(), making accessing dev->index afterwards
invalid.
I actually saw problems when testing my (not-yet-merged)
virtio-ccw code:
- device_add virtio-net,id=xxx
-> creates device virtio<n> with n>0
- device_del xxx
-> deletes virtio<n>, but calls ida_simple_remove with an
index of 0
- device_add virtio-net,id=xxx
-> tries to add virtio0, which is still in use...
So let's save the index we want to release before calling
device_unregister().
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
index 1e8659c..809b0de 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -225,8 +225,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_virtio_device);
void unregister_virtio_device(struct virtio_device *dev)
{
+ int index = dev->index; /* save for after device release */
+
device_unregister(&dev->dev);
- ida_simple_remove(&virtio_index_ida, dev->index);
+ ida_simple_remove(&virtio_index_ida, index);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_virtio_device);
--
1.7.12.4
next reply other threads:[~2012-11-08 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-08 10:43 Cornelia Huck [this message]
2012-11-08 11:50 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-11-09 4:24 ` Rusty Russell
2012-11-09 5:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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