The reason we defer kfree until release function is because it's a
general rule for kobjects: kfree of the reference counter itself is only
legal in the release function.
Previous patch didn't make this clear, document this in code.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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>
It turns out we need to add device-specific code
in release callback. Move it to virtio_pci_legacy.c.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
kbuild does not seem to like it when we name source
files same as the module.
Let's rename virtio_pci -> virtio_pci_common,
and get rid of #include-ing c files.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Move everything dealing with legacy devices out to virtio_pci_legacy.c.
Expose common code APIs in virtio_pci.h
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin