[ No idea why I haven never sent this email before. I was just going through all the use after free warnings again today and noticed it. ] Hello Jake Oshins, The patch 4daace0d8ce8: "PCI: hv: Add paravirtual PCI front-end for Microsoft Hyper-V VMs" from Feb 16, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c:1441 pci_devices_present_work() error: dereferencing freed memory 'dr' drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c 1410 /* Pull this off the queue and process it if it was the last one. */ 1411 spin_lock_irqsave(&hbus->device_list_lock, flags); 1412 while (!list_empty(&hbus->dr_list)) { 1413 dr = list_first_entry(&hbus->dr_list, struct hv_dr_state, 1414 list_entry); 1415 list_del(&dr->list_entry); 1416 1417 /* Throw this away if the list still has stuff in it. */ 1418 if (!list_empty(&hbus->dr_list)) { 1419 kfree(dr); ^^^^^^^^^ We free "dr". Presumably we should set dr = NULL here? 1420 continue; 1421 } 1422 } 1423 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hbus->device_list_lock, flags); 1424 1425 if (!dr) { 1426 up(&hbus->enum_sem); 1427 put_hvpcibus(hbus); 1428 return; 1429 } 1430 1431 /* First, mark all existing children as reported missing. */ 1432 spin_lock_irqsave(&hbus->device_list_lock, flags); 1433 list_for_each(iter, &hbus->children) { 1434 hpdev = container_of(iter, struct hv_pci_dev, 1435 list_entry); 1436 hpdev->reported_missing = true; 1437 } 1438 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hbus->device_list_lock, flags); 1439 1440 /* Next, add back any reported devices. */ 1441 for (child_no = 0; child_no < dr->device_count; child_no++) { ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Use after free. 1442 found = false; 1443 new_desc = &dr->func[child_no]; 1444 1445 spin_lock_irqsave(&hbus->device_list_lock, flags); regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel