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    IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow · b312be3d
    Jack Morgenstein authored
    The kernel commit cited below restructured ib device management
    so that the device kobject is initialized in ib_alloc_device.
    
    As part of the restructuring, the kobject is now initialized in
    procedure ib_alloc_device, and is later added to the device hierarchy
    in the ib_register_device call stack, in procedure
    ib_device_register_sysfs (which calls device_add).
    
    However, in the ib_device_register_sysfs error flow, if an error
    occurs following the call to device_add, the cleanup procedure
    device_unregister is called. This call results in the device object
    being deleted -- which results in various use-after-free crashes.
    
    The correct cleanup call is device_del -- which undoes device_add
    without deleting the device object.
    
    The device object will then (correctly) be deleted in the
    ib_register_device caller's error cleanup flow, when the caller invokes
    ib_dealloc_device.
    
    Fixes: 55aeed06 ("IB/core: Make ib_alloc_device init the kobject")
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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