If allocating a new instance of an I/O bus fails when unregistering a
device, wait to destroy the device until after all readers are guaranteed
to see the new null bus.  Destroying devices before the bus is nullified
could lead to use-after-free since readers expect the devices on their
reference of the bus to remain valid.

Fixes: f65886606c2d ("KVM: fix memory leak in kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev()")
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 383df23514b9..d6e2b570e430 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -4511,7 +4511,13 @@ void kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(struct kvm *kvm, enum 
kvm_bus bus_idx,
                new_bus->dev_count--;
                memcpy(new_bus->range + i, bus->range + i + 1,
                                flex_array_size(new_bus, range, 
new_bus->dev_count - i));
-       } else {
+       }
+
+       rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->buses[bus_idx], new_bus);
+       synchronize_srcu_expedited(&kvm->srcu);
+
+       /* Destroy the old bus _after_ installing the (null) bus. */
+       if (!new_bus) {
                pr_err("kvm: failed to shrink bus, removing it completely\n");
                for (j = 0; j < bus->dev_count; j++) {
                        if (j == i)
@@ -4520,8 +4526,6 @@ void kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(struct kvm *kvm, enum 
kvm_bus bus_idx,
                }
        }
 
-       rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->buses[bus_idx], new_bus);
-       synchronize_srcu_expedited(&kvm->srcu);
        kfree(bus);
        return;
 }
-- 
2.31.1.295.g9ea45b61b8-goog

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