[PATCH v3 15/25] virtio_net: fix use after free on allocation failure

Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-12T11:47:45Z

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 <mst at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com>
---
 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