[PATCH v4 15/25] virtio_net: fix use after free on allocation failure
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2014-10-13 07:52:47
Also in:
kvm, linux-s390, linux-scsi, lkml, netdev
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest, virtio net driver · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang
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 <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <redacted> --- 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:
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