driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe
authorAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:13:07 +0000 (11:13 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:59:01 +0000 (06:59 -0800)
commitbdf2a0db176e1de7c93fe7b7c5a74756b976fb33
tree2a592842c47ee6f2bcfacefb5908c234e445ec15
parent04d98e96a02e24987a53f4a879abeae66440e49a
driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe

commit bb34cb6bbd287b57e955bc5cfd42fcde6aaca279 upstream.

bus_find_device_by_name() acquires a device reference which is never
released.  This results in an object leak, which on older kernels
results in failure to release all resources of PCI devices.  libvirt
uses drivers_probe to re-attach devices to the host after assignment
and is therefore a common trigger for this leak.

Example:

# cd /sys/bus/pci/
# dmesg -C
# echo 1 > devices/0000\:01\:00.0/sriov_numvfs
# echo 0 > devices/0000\:01\:00.0/sriov_numvfs
# dmesg | grep 01:10
 pci 0000:01:10.0: [8086:10ca] type 00 class 0x020000
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_add_internal: parent: '0000:00:01.0', set: 'devices'
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_uevent_env
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0'
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_uevent_env
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0'
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_uevent_env
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0'
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_cleanup, parent           (null)
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): calling ktype release
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0': free name

[kobject freed as expected]

# dmesg -C
# echo 1 > devices/0000\:01\:00.0/sriov_numvfs
# echo 0000:01:10.0 > drivers_probe
# echo 0 > devices/0000\:01\:00.0/sriov_numvfs
# dmesg | grep 01:10
 pci 0000:01:10.0: [8086:10ca] type 00 class 0x020000
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): kobject_add_internal: parent: '0000:00:01.0', set: 'devices'
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): kobject_uevent_env
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0'
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): kobject_uevent_env
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0'
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): kobject_uevent_env
 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0'

[no free]

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/bus.c