From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> On driver shutdown device_obj is being freed twice: 1) In vmbus_free_channels() 2) vmbus_device_release() (which is being triggered by device_unregister() in vmbus_device_unregister(). This double kfree leads to the following sporadic crash on driver unload: [ 23.469876] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 23.470036] Modules linked in: hv_vmbus(-) [ 23.470036] CPU: 2 PID: 213 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 3.19.0-rc5_bug923184+ #488 [ 23.470036] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS 090006 05/23/2012 [ 23.470036] task: ffff880036ef1cb0 ti: ffff880036ce8000 task.ti: ffff880036ce8000 [ 23.470036] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811d2e1b>] [<ffffffff811d2e1b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xdb/0x1e0 [ 23.470036] RSP: 0018:ffff880036cebcc8 EFLAGS: 00010246 ... When this crash does not happen on driver unload the similar one is expected if we try to load hv_vmbus again. Remove kfree from vmbus_free_channels() as freeing it from vmbus_device_release() seems right. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c index ba4b25f..36bacc7 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c +++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c @@ -262,7 +262,6 @@ void vmbus_free_channels(void) list_for_each_entry(channel, &vmbus_connection.chn_list, listentry) { vmbus_device_unregister(channel->device_obj); - kfree(channel->device_obj); free_channel(channel); } } -- 1.7.4.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel