Patch "virtio_console: fix a crash in config_work_handler" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    virtio_console: fix a crash in config_work_handler

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     virtio_console-fix-a-crash-in-config_work_handler.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Jul  3 13:09:02 CEST 2017
From: "G. Campana" <gcampana@quarkslab.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:37:46 +0200
Subject: virtio_console: fix a crash in config_work_handler

From: "G. Campana" <gcampana@quarkslab.com>


[ Upstream commit 8379cadf71c3ee8173a1c6fc1ea7762a9638c047 ]

Using control_work instead of config_work as the 3rd argument to
container_of results in an invalid portdev pointer. Indeed, the work
structure is initialized as below:

    INIT_WORK(&portdev->config_work, &config_work_handler);

It leads to a crash when portdev->vdev is dereferenced later. This
bug
is triggered when the guest uses a virtio-console without multiport
feature and receives a config_changed virtio interrupt.

Signed-off-by: G. Campana <gcampana@quarkslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/char/virtio_console.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -1870,7 +1870,7 @@ static void config_work_handler(struct w
 {
 	struct ports_device *portdev;
 
-	portdev = container_of(work, struct ports_device, control_work);
+	portdev = container_of(work, struct ports_device, config_work);
 	if (!use_multiport(portdev)) {
 		struct virtio_device *vdev;
 		struct port *port;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gcampana@quarkslab.com are

queue-4.9/virtio_console-fix-a-crash-in-config_work_handler.patch