linux/drivers/infiniband
Jack Morgenstein b312be3d87 IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow
The kernel commit cited below restructured ib device management
so that the device kobject is initialized in ib_alloc_device.

As part of the restructuring, the kobject is now initialized in
procedure ib_alloc_device, and is later added to the device hierarchy
in the ib_register_device call stack, in procedure
ib_device_register_sysfs (which calls device_add).

However, in the ib_device_register_sysfs error flow, if an error
occurs following the call to device_add, the cleanup procedure
device_unregister is called. This call results in the device object
being deleted -- which results in various use-after-free crashes.

The correct cleanup call is device_del -- which undoes device_add
without deleting the device object.

The device object will then (correctly) be deleted in the
ib_register_device caller's error cleanup flow, when the caller invokes
ib_dealloc_device.

Fixes: 55aeed0654 ("IB/core: Make ib_alloc_device init the kobject")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
2017-04-21 12:26:05 -04:00
..
core IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow 2017-04-21 12:26:05 -04:00
hw cxgb4: Convert PDBG to pr_debug the second 2017-04-20 22:18:54 -04:00
sw IB/rxe: Cache dst in QP instead of getting it for each send 2017-04-21 10:45:02 -04:00
ulp IB/ipoib: Fix deadlock between ipoib_stop and mcast join flow 2017-04-21 11:45:55 -04:00
Kconfig IB/opa-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) netdev 2017-04-20 12:01:38 -04:00
Makefile IB/rdmavt: Create module framework and handle driver registration 2016-03-10 20:37:04 -05:00