PCI: Fix pci_host_bridge struct device release/free handling
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 7b543663 ("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/20200513223859.11295-2-robh@kernel.orgReported-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Tested-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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