greybus: fw-management: Free fw-mgmt only after all users are gone

The fw-management driver rightly destroys the char device on
connection-exit, but that doesn't guarantee that all of the users of the
device are gone.

Userspace may still be holding file-descriptor of the char device and
can initiate new ioctl operations. And that *will* lead to kernel crash.

To avoid this issue, manage struct users with kref, manage a list of
'struct fw-mgmt' and start using the structure only after getting its
kref incremented.

The important part is the routine get_fw_mgmt(), which increments the
reference to the struct before returning it to the caller. The list of
fw-mgmt structs in protected with a mutex to avoid any races around
that.

The kref is incremented once the char device is opened and dropped only
when it is closed.

Reported-by: Johan Hovold <johan@hovoldconsulting.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>

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