From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: [PATCH v4 15/25] virtio_net: fix use after free on allocation failure Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:50:59 +0300 Message-ID: <1413114332-626-16-git-send-email-mst-v4@redhat.com> References: <1413114332-626-1-git-send-email-mst-v4@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Christian Borntraeger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Paolo Bonzini , Amit Shah , v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, "David S. Miller" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1413114332-626-1-git-send-email-mst-v4@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.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