IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow
authorJack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 08:55:57 +0000 (10:55 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 20 May 2017 12:27:00 +0000 (14:27 +0200)
commit1549c883d39bf86fcc00917ffc9da5d3c48fd58f
treec10e8cbb522f6b4743e96373fedd03808e5a898e
parentd96bb545d6fffab896e0ba2160d4d39b3c4efcca
IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow

commit b312be3d87e4c80872cbea869e569175c5eb0f9a upstream.

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: 55aeed06544f6 ("IB/core: Make ib_alloc_device init the kobject")
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c