[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 024/216] driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe

Luis Henriques
2015-01-12T18:05:40Z

From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

commit 0372ffb35d00288802265586a29c117911d02fb8 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>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
drivers/base/bus.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 83e910a57563..876bae5ade33 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -254,13 +254,15 @@ static ssize_t store_drivers_probe(struct bus_type *bus,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
struct device *dev;
+ int err = -EINVAL;

dev = bus_find_device_by_name(bus, NULL, buf);
if (!dev)
return -ENODEV;
- if (bus_rescan_devices_helper(dev, NULL) != 0)
- return -EINVAL;
- return count;
+ if (bus_rescan_devices_helper(dev, NULL) == 0)
+ err = count;
+ put_device(dev);
+ return err;
}

static struct device *next_device(struct klist_iter *i)
--
2.1.4