Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753428AbaJLLtc (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:49:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11374 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752960AbaJLLod (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:44:33 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:47:45 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rusty Russell , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Amit Shah , Cornelia Huck , Christian Borntraeger , "David S. Miller" , Paolo Bonzini Subject: [PATCH v3 15/25] virtio_net: fix use after free on allocation failure Message-ID: <1413114332-626-16-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1413114332-626-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1413114332-626-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In the extremely unlikely event that driver initialization fails after RX buffers are added, virtio net frees RX buffers while VQs are still active, potentially causing device to use a freed buffer. To fix, reset device first - same as we do on device removal. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 430f3ae..3551417 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1830,6 +1830,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) return 0; free_recv_bufs: + vi->vdev->config->reset(vdev); + free_receive_bufs(vi); unregister_netdev(dev); free_vqs: -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/