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authorPaul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>2019-12-02 11:41:16 +0000
committerJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2019-12-04 11:35:32 +0100
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xen/xenbus: reference count registered modules
To prevent a PV driver module being removed whilst attached to its other end, and hence xenbus calling into potentially invalid text, take a reference on the module before calling the probe() method (dropping it if unsuccessful) and drop the reference after returning from the remove() method. Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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