virtio_pci: defer kfree until release callback
commit 63bd62a0 upstream. 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. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> [ luis: backported to 3.16: - file rename: virtio_pci_legacy.c -> virtio_pci.c ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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