linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net V2] vhost: correctly remove wait queue during poll failure

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Message-ID: <20180327165938-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:59:44 +0300
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2] vhost: correctly remove wait queue during poll
 failure

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 08:50:52PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We tried to remove vq poll from wait queue, but do not check whether
> or not it was in a list before. This will lead double free. Fixing
> this by switching to use vhost_poll_stop() which zeros poll->wqh after
> removing poll from waitqueue to make sure it won't be freed twice.
> 
> Cc: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@...cle.com>
> Reported-by: syzbot+c0272972b01b872e604a@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: 2b8b328b61c79 ("vhost_net: handle polling errors when setting backend")
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>

> ---
> Changes from V1:
> - tweak the commit log for to match the code
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 1b3e8d2d..5d5a9d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -212,8 +212,7 @@ int vhost_poll_start(struct vhost_poll *poll, struct file *file)
>  	if (mask)
>  		vhost_poll_wakeup(&poll->wait, 0, 0, poll_to_key(mask));
>  	if (mask & EPOLLERR) {
> -		if (poll->wqh)
> -			remove_wait_queue(poll->wqh, &poll->wait);
> +		vhost_poll_stop(poll);
>  		ret = -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4