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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vfio-pci: Fix missing unparent of dynamically allocated MemoryRegion
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:12:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CF3F8B.2060503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150201160602.1167.7247.stgit@gimli.home>



On 01/02/2015 17:06, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Commit d8d95814609e added explicit object_unparent() calls for
> dynamically allocated MemoryRegions.  The VFIOMSIXInfo structure also
> contains such a MemoryRegion, covering the mmap'd region of a PCI BAR
> above the MSI-X table.  This structure is freed as part of the class
> exit function and therefore also needs an explicit object_unparent().
> Failing to do this results in random segfaults due to fields within
> the structure, often the class pointer, being reclaimed and corrupted
> by the time object_finalize_child_property() is called for the object.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> ---
> 
>  hw/vfio/pci.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.c b/hw/vfio/pci.c
> index 014a92c..29caabc 100644
> --- a/hw/vfio/pci.c
> +++ b/hw/vfio/pci.c
> @@ -3065,6 +3065,7 @@ static void vfio_put_device(VFIOPCIDevice *vdev)
>  {
>      g_free(vdev->vbasedev.name);
>      if (vdev->msix) {
> +        object_unparent(OBJECT(&vdev->msix->mmap_mem));
>          g_free(vdev->msix);
>          vdev->msix = NULL;
>      }
> 

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Perhaps specify "# 2.2" on the "Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org" line and/or
add a "Fixes: ..." line.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-02  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-01 16:06 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vfio-pci: Fix missing unparent of dynamically allocated MemoryRegion Alex Williamson
2015-02-02  9:12 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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