Re: [PATCH] xen-pciback: fix up cleanup path when alloc fails

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:47:17AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 02:32:39PM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> > When allocating a pciback device fails, avoid the possibility of a
> > use after free.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> 
> Ugh, and it looks like xen-blkfront has the same issue.

<whew> Nope. No problems there.

The ->probe if it fails (so xenbus_dev_probe returns the error)
ends up in the 'probe_failed' label in really_probe which takes care by doing:

dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);

Wheew!

either way the patch should go in, but the 'possibility' should
be perhaps removed? Unless there is some other path I missed?

> 
> > 
> > Reported-by: Jonathan Creekmore <jonathan.creekmore@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c
> > index 98bc345..4843741 100644
> > --- a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c
> > +++ b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c
> > @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ static struct xen_pcibk_device *alloc_pdev(struct xenbus_device *xdev)
> >  	dev_dbg(&xdev->dev, "allocated pdev @ 0x%p\n", pdev);
> >  
> >  	pdev->xdev = xdev;
> > -	dev_set_drvdata(&xdev->dev, pdev);
> >  
> >  	mutex_init(&pdev->dev_lock);
> >  
> > @@ -58,6 +57,9 @@ static struct xen_pcibk_device *alloc_pdev(struct xenbus_device *xdev)
> >  		kfree(pdev);
> >  		pdev = NULL;
> >  	}
> > +
> > +	dev_set_drvdata(&xdev->dev, pdev);
> > +
> >  out:
> >  	return pdev;
> >  }
> > -- 
> > 2.4.10
> >