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 <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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;
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;
}
--
2.9.4
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