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* [PATCH net] virtio-net: serialize tx routine during reset
@ 2017-06-28  1:51 ` Jason Wang
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jason Wang @ 2017-06-28  1:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mst, virtualization, netdev, linux-kernel; +Cc: John Fastabend, jpmenil

We don't hold any tx lock when trying to disable TX during reset, this
would lead a use after free since ndo_start_xmit() tries to access
the virtqueue which has already been freed. Fix this by using
netif_tx_disable() before freeing the vqs, this could make sure no tx
after vq freeing.

Reported-by: Jean-Philippe Menil <jpmenil@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jean-Philippe Menil <jpmenil@gmail.com>
Fixes commit f600b6905015 ("virtio_net: Add XDP support")
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index a871f45..143d8a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1797,6 +1797,7 @@ static void virtnet_freeze_down(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	flush_work(&vi->config_work);
 
 	netif_device_detach(vi->dev);
+	netif_tx_disable(vi->dev);
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
 
 	if (netif_running(vi->dev)) {
-- 
2.7.4

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