Virtio wants to release used indices after the corresponding
virtio device has been unregistered. However, virtio does not
hold an extra reference, giving up its last reference with
device_unregister(), making accessing dev->index afterwards
invalid.
I actually saw problems when testing my (not-yet-merged)
virtio-ccw code:
- device_add virtio-net,id=xxx
-> creates device virtio<n> with n>0
- device_del xxx
-> deletes virtio<n>, but calls ida_simple_remove with an
index of 0
- device_add virtio-net,id=xxx
-> tries to add virtio0, which is still in use...
So let's save the index we want to release before calling
device_unregister().
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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