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The PCI code has several paths where the struct pci_host_bridge is freed
directly. This is wrong because it contains a struct device which is
refcounted and should be freed using put_device(). This can result in
use-after-free errors. I think this problem has existed since 2012 with
commit 7b54366 ("PCI: add generic device into pci_host_bridge
struct"). It generally hasn't mattered as most host bridge drivers are
still built-in and can't unbind.
The problem is a struct device should never be freed directly once
device_initialize() is called and a ref is held, but that doesn't happen
until pci_register_host_bridge(). There's then a window between allocating
the host bridge and pci_register_host_bridge() where kfree should be used.
This is fragile and requires callers to do the right thing. To fix this, we
need to split device_register() into device_initialize() and device_add()
calls, so that the host bridge struct is always freed by using a
put_device().
devm_pci_alloc_host_bridge() is using devm_kzalloc() to allocate struct
pci_host_bridge which will be freed directly. Instead, we can use a custom
devres action to call put_device().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Reported-by: Anders Roxell <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Anders Roxell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
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