This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfio/platform: fix module_put call in error flow
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
vfio-platform-fix-module_put-call-in-error-flow.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 257757bd19ba094fcba63fe7a92deb06c4dd2436
Author: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 18 22:21:31 2021 +0300
vfio/platform: fix module_put call in error flow
[ Upstream commit dc51ff91cf2d1e9a2d941da483602f71d4a51472 ]
The ->parent_module is the one that use in try_module_get. It should
also be the one the we use in module_put during vfio_platform_open().
Fixes: 32a2d71c4e80 ("vfio: platform: introduce vfio-platform-base module")
Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20210518192133.59195-1-mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c
index d143d08c4f0f..9b1b6c1e218d 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ err_irq:
vfio_platform_regions_cleanup(vdev);
err_reg:
mutex_unlock(&driver_lock);
- module_put(THIS_MODULE);
+ module_put(vdev->parent_module);
return ret;
}
