[PATCH net] vhost: reset metadata cache when initializing new IOTLB

* [PATCH net] vhost: reset metadata cache when initializing new IOTLB
@ 2018-08-08  3:43 Jason Wang
  2018-08-08 16:45 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jason Wang @ 2018-08-08  3:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mst, jasowang; +Cc: kvm, virtualization, netdev, linux-kernel

We need to reset metadata cache during new IOTLB initialization,
otherwise the stale pointers to previous IOTLB may be still accessed
which will lead a use after free.

Reported-by: syzbot+c51e6736a1bf614b3272@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: f88949138058 ("vhost: introduce O(1) vq metadata cache")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index a502f1a..ed31145 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -1560,9 +1560,12 @@ int vhost_init_device_iotlb(struct vhost_dev *d, bool enabled)
 	d->iotlb = niotlb;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < d->nvqs; ++i) {
-		mutex_lock(&d->vqs[i]->mutex);
-		d->vqs[i]->iotlb = niotlb;
-		mutex_unlock(&d->vqs[i]->mutex);
+		struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = d->vqs[i];
+
+		mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
+		vq->iotlb = niotlb;
+		__vhost_vq_meta_reset(vq);
+		mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
 	}
 
 	vhost_umem_clean(oiotlb);
-- 
2.7.4


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