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virtio: fix use-after-free in unregister_virtio_device()

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device_unregister() is device_del() plus put_device(). When the caller
holds no extra reference, that drops the last one and runs the release
callback, which for several transports frees the memory the embedded
struct virtio_device sits in. unregister_virtio_device() then calls
virtio_debug_device_exit(), which reads dev->debugfs_dir out of the freed
object.

Affected transports are the ones whose release callback frees and whose
remove path takes no reference: virtio_mmio, virtio_vdpa, virtio_uml,
mlxbf-tmfifo and virtio_ccw. virtio_pci is unaffected because
virtio_pci_remove() brackets the call with get_device() and put_device().

Remove the debugfs entries before the device can go away. They are only
accessed through the protected debugfs interface, so
debugfs_remove_recursive() waits for in-progress file operations before
returning. Tearing them down while the device is still alive is therefore
safe.

Reproduced on User-Mode Linux with CONFIG_KASAN and CONFIG_VIRTIO_DEBUG
by unbinding a virtio-uml device:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in virtio_debug_device_exit+0x36/0x4d
  Read of size 8 at addr 00000000616e0b10 by task init/1
   __asan_report_load8_noabort
   virtio_debug_device_exit+0x36/0x4d
   unregister_virtio_device+0x48/0x75
   virtio_uml_remove
   platform_remove
   device_release_driver_internal
   unbind_store

  Freed by task 1:
   kfree
   virtio_uml_release_dev
   device_release
   kobject_put
   put_device
   device_unregister

With this applied, the report is gone and unbind is clean.

Fixes: 96a8326d69 ("virtio: add debugfs infrastructure to allow to debug virtio features")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20260821213953.76906-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
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Karl Mehltretter 2026-08-21 23:39:53 +02:00 • committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
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