This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
driver-core-fix-unbalanced-device-reference-in-drivers_probe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From bb34cb6bbd287b57e955bc5cfd42fcde6aaca279 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Williamson <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:13:07 -0600
Subject: driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe
From: Alex Williamson <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/base/bus.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -254,13 +254,15 @@ static ssize_t store_drivers_probe(struc
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)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.18/driver-core-fix-unbalanced-device-reference-in-drivers_probe.patch
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