The next use of the device will generate an underflow from the stale reference. Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Fixes: 1518ac272e78 ("vfio/pci: fix memory leaks of eventfd ctx") Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c index 7c0779018b1b..f634c81998bb 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c @@ -521,10 +521,14 @@ static void vfio_pci_release(void *device_data) vfio_pci_vf_token_user_add(vdev, -1); vfio_spapr_pci_eeh_release(vdev->pdev); vfio_pci_disable(vdev); - if (vdev->err_trigger) + if (vdev->err_trigger) { eventfd_ctx_put(vdev->err_trigger); - if (vdev->req_trigger) + vdev->err_trigger = NULL; + } + if (vdev->req_trigger) { eventfd_ctx_put(vdev->req_trigger); + vdev->req_trigger = NULL; + } } mutex_unlock(&vdev->reflck->lock);