linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 9p: disconnect channel when PCI device is removed

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Date:	Mon, 07 May 2012 12:44:03 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	ericvh@...il.com, jvrao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davej@...hat.com, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: disconnect channel when PCI device is removed

Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> writes:

> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:48:36 -0400, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com> wrote:
>> When a virtio_9p pci device is being removed, we should close down any
>> active channels and free up resources, we're not supposed to BUG() if there's
>> still an open channel since it's a valid case when removing the PCI device.
>> 
>> Otherwise, removing the PCI device with an open channel would cause the
>> following BUG():
>
> (Damn changed notmuch.el bindings!  Previous reply went only to Sasha).
>
> Applied thanks,
> Rusty.

I am not sure whether the patch is sufficient, p9_virtio_remove does a
kfree(chan) and since we are not doing anything at the file system
level, we would still allow new 9p client request. That means
p9_virtio_request would be dereferencing a freed memory.

-aneesh

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