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Message-ID: <0c53415d-3394-455a-a6b5-99d3efb92318@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 14:27:54 +0200
From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>
To: yskelg@...il.com, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>
Cc: skhan@...uxfoundation.org, sj@...nel.org,
Austin Kim <austindh.kim@...il.com>, shjy180909@...il.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/xenbus: handle potential dangling pointer issue in
xen_pcibk_xenbus_probe
On 29.05.24 14:22, yskelg@...il.com wrote:
> From: Yunseong Kim <yskelg@...il.com>
>
> If 'xen_pcibk_init_devices()' fails. This ensures that 'pdev->xdev' does
> not point to 'xdev' when 'pdev' is freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yunseong Kim <yskelg@...il.com>
> ---
> drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c
> index b11e401f1b1e..348d6803b8c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c
> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static struct xen_pcibk_device *alloc_pdev(struct xenbus_device *xdev)
> INIT_WORK(&pdev->op_work, xen_pcibk_do_op);
>
> if (xen_pcibk_init_devices(pdev)) {
> + pdev->xdev = NULL;
> kfree(pdev);
> pdev = NULL;
> }
NAK.
This doesn't make any sense, as pdev is freed.
Juergen
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