Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 6 authors, 2025-08-04

Re: [PATCH] vhost: initialize vq->nheads properly

From: Jason Wang <hidden>
Date: 2025-08-04 09:06:12
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Hi Michael:

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM Jason Wang [off-list ref] wrote:
Commit 7918bb2d19c9 ("vhost: basic in order support") introduces
vq->nheads to store the number of batched used buffers per used elem
but it forgets to initialize the vq->nheads to NULL in
vhost_dev_init() this will cause kfree() that would try to free it
without be allocated if SET_OWNER is not called.

Reported-by: JAEHOON KIM <redacted>
Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Fixes: 7918bb2d19c9 ("vhost: basic in order support")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
I didn't see this in your pull request.

Thanks
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