On 01/04/2015 06:26 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 02:47:40PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > When releasing a virtio device, We can't free a struct virtio_device until 
>> > the
>> > underlying struct device has been released, which might not happen 
>> > immediately
>> > on device_unregister() even if that was the device's last reference.
>> > 
>> > Instead, free the memory only once we know the device is gone in the 
>> > release
>> > callback.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
> 
> Isn't this an old bug: do we need to copy stable on a fix?
> 
> What is the behaviour without this patch?
> Is there a way to make this cause a crash?

It will oops if CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is enabled. I guess
it needs to go to stable as well.


Thanks,
Sasha

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