virtio-mmio: don't break lifecycle of vm_dev
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: 7eb781b1 ("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>
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