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

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Date:   Wed,  8 Aug 2018 11:43:04 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     mst@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] vhost: reset metadata cache when initializing new IOTLB

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@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: f88949138058 ("vhost: introduce O(1) vq metadata cache")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.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