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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: "Jason J. Herne" <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	pasic@linux.ibm.com, akrowiak@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/vfio-ap: Fix module unload memory leak of matrix_dev
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:10:18 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210618141018.GE1002214@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210618133524.22386-1-jjherne@linux.ibm.com>

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 09:35:24AM -0400, Jason J. Herne wrote:
> vfio_ap_matrix_dev_release is shadowing the global matrix_dev with driver
> data that never gets set. So when release is called we end up not freeing
> matrix_dev. The fix is to remove the shadow variable and just free the
> global.

I would clarify this commit message to say that the drv_data of the
matrix_dev is never set and so dev_get_drvdata() always returns NULL

And I would suggest to use 

  container_of(dev, struct ap_matrix_dev, dev)

instead of the global variable, and probably NULL the global
too..

Jason


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-18 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-18 13:35 [PATCH] s390/vfio-ap: Fix module unload memory leak of matrix_dev Jason J. Herne
2021-06-18 14:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-06-18 14:35   ` Jason J. Herne
2021-06-18 14:59     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-18 15:31 ` Tony Krowiak

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