On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:26:43 +0800
weiping zhang <[email protected]> wrote:

> As mentioned at drivers/base/core.c:
> /*
>  * NOTE: _Never_ directly free @dev after calling this function, even
>  * if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
>  * reference initialized in this function instead.
>  */
> so we don't free vp_dev until vp_dev->vdev.dev.release be called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c 
> b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> index 1c4797e..48d4d1c 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ static void virtio_pci_release_dev(struct device *_d)
>  static int virtio_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
>                           const struct pci_device_id *id)
>  {
> -     struct virtio_pci_device *vp_dev;
> +     struct virtio_pci_device *vp_dev, *reg_dev = NULL;

Not sure if I would have used a pointer for this purpose, but as that
is what Michael had proposed...

>       int rc;
>  
>       /* allocate our structure and fill it out */
> @@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ static int virtio_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
>       pci_set_master(pci_dev);
>  
>       rc = register_virtio_device(&vp_dev->vdev);
> +     reg_dev = vp_dev;
>       if (rc)
>               goto err_register;
>  
> @@ -564,7 +565,10 @@ static int virtio_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
>  err_probe:
>       pci_disable_device(pci_dev);
>  err_enable_device:
> -     kfree(vp_dev);
> +     if (reg_dev)
> +             put_device(&vp_dev->vdev.dev);
> +     else
> +             kfree(vp_dev);
>       return rc;
>  }
>  

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
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