netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free on the_virtio

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Date:   Fri, 5 Jul 2019 08:18:37 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
Cc:     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free on
 the_virtio_vsock


On 2019/7/4 下午5:20, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>>>> This is still suspicious, can we access the_virtio_vsock through vdev->priv?
>>>> If yes, we may still get use-after-free since it was not protected by RCU.
>>> We will free the object only after calling the del_vqs(), so we are sure
>>> that the vq_callbacks ended and will no longer be invoked.
>>> So, IIUC it shouldn't happen.
>> Yes, but any dereference that is not done in vq_callbacks will be very
>> dangerous in the future.
> Right.
>
> Do you think make sense to continue with this series in order to fix the
> hot-unplug issue, then I'll work to refactor the driver code to use the refcnt
> (as you suggested in patch 2) and singleton for the_virtio_vsock?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano


Yes.

Thanks