Re: [PATCH v5 04/13] s390: vfio-ap: base implementation of VFIO AP device driver

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:41:16 +0200
Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 07/05/2018 17:11, Tony Krowiak wrote:
> > Introduces a new AP device driver. This device driver
> > is built on the VFIO mediated device framework. The framework
> > provides sysfs interfaces that facilitate passthrough
> > access by guests to devices installed on the linux host.  
> ...snip...
> 
> > +static int vfio_ap_matrix_dev_create(void)
> > +{
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	vfio_ap_root_device = root_device_register(VFIO_AP_ROOT_NAME);
> > +
> > +	if (IS_ERR(vfio_ap_root_device)) {
> > +		ret = PTR_ERR(vfio_ap_root_device);
> > +		goto done;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	ap_matrix = kzalloc(sizeof(*ap_matrix), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!ap_matrix) {
> > +		ret = -ENOMEM;
> > +		goto matrix_alloc_err;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	ap_matrix->device.type = &vfio_ap_dev_type;
> > +	dev_set_name(&ap_matrix->device, "%s", VFIO_AP_DEV_NAME);
> > +	ap_matrix->device.parent = vfio_ap_root_device;
> > +	ap_matrix->device.release = vfio_ap_matrix_dev_release;
> > +	ap_matrix->device.driver = &vfio_ap_drv.driver;
> > +
> > +	ret = device_register(&ap_matrix->device);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		goto matrix_reg_err;
> > +
> > +	goto done;
> > +
> > +matrix_reg_err:
> > +	put_device(&ap_matrix->device);  
> 
> Did not see this before but here you certainly want to
> do a kfree and not a put_device.

No, this must not be a kfree. Once you've tried to register something
embedding a struct device with the driver core, you need to use
put_device, as another path may have acquired a reference, even if
registering ultimately failed. See the comment for device_register().
IOW, the code is correct.

> 
> 
> 
> > +
> > +matrix_alloc_err:
> > +	root_device_unregister(vfio_ap_root_device);
> > +
> > +done:
> > +	return ret;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void vfio_ap_matrix_dev_destroy(struct ap_matrix *ap_matrix)
> > +{
> > +	device_unregister(&ap_matrix->device);
> > +	root_device_unregister(vfio_ap_root_device);  
> 
> Also here you need a kfree(ap_matrix) too .

Same here.