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IB/hfi1: Do not free hfi1 cdev parent structure early

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The deletion of a cdev is not a fence for holding off references to the
structure. The driver attempts to delete the cdev and then proceeds to
free the parent structure, the hfi1_devdata, or dd. This can potentially
lead to a kernel panic in situations where a user has an FD for the cdev
open, and the pci device gets removed. If the user then closes the FD
there will be a NULL dereference when trying to do put on the cdev's
kobject.

Fix this by pointing the cdev's kobject.parent at a new kobject embedded
in its parent structure. Also take a reference when the device is opened
and put it back when it is closed.

Reviewed-by: Mitko Haralanov <mitko.haralanov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Dennis Dalessandro 2016-05-19 05:26:44 -07:00 • committed by Doug Ledford
commit e11ffbd575
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