[PATCH 2/2] virtio: don't free memory until the underlying struct device has been released

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Jan 02 2015 - 14:48:11 EST


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() even if that was the device's last reference.

Instead, free the memory only once we know the device is gone in the release
callback.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 9 ++++-----
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
index 59d3685..caa483d 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
@@ -423,11 +423,10 @@ int vp_set_vq_affinity(struct virtqueue *vq, int cpu)

void virtio_pci_release_dev(struct device *_d)
{
- /*
- * No need for a release method as we allocate/free
- * all devices together with the pci devices.
- * Provide an empty one to avoid getting a warning from core.
- */
+ struct virtio_device *vdev = dev_to_virtio(_d);
+ struct virtio_pci_device *vp_dev = to_vp_device(vdev);
+
+ kfree(vp_dev);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c
index 913ca23..15e6e6d 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c
@@ -301,5 +301,4 @@ void virtio_pci_legacy_remove(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
pci_iounmap(pci_dev, vp_dev->ioaddr);
pci_release_regions(pci_dev);
pci_disable_device(pci_dev);
- kfree(vp_dev);
}
--
1.7.10.4

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