IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow
authorJack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 08:55:57 +0000 (10:55 +0200)
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:26:05 +0000 (12:26 -0400)
commitb312be3d87e4c80872cbea869e569175c5eb0f9a
treedeeb2ee1fa0714eb14cb060b05b0cd6b1730337b
parent4be3a4fa51f432ef045546d16f25c68a1ab525b9
IB/core: Fix sysfs registration error flow

The kernel commit cited below restructured ib device management
so that the device kobject is initialized in ib_alloc_device.

As part of the restructuring, the kobject is now initialized in
procedure ib_alloc_device, and is later added to the device hierarchy
in the ib_register_device call stack, in procedure
ib_device_register_sysfs (which calls device_add).

However, in the ib_device_register_sysfs error flow, if an error
occurs following the call to device_add, the cleanup procedure
device_unregister is called. This call results in the device object
being deleted -- which results in various use-after-free crashes.

The correct cleanup call is device_del -- which undoes device_add
without deleting the device object.

The device object will then (correctly) be deleted in the
ib_register_device caller's error cleanup flow, when the caller invokes
ib_dealloc_device.

Fixes: 55aeed06544f6 ("IB/core: Make ib_alloc_device init the kobject")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c