[PATCH 3.16 171/366] xen-netfront: avoid crashing on resume after a failure in talk_to_netback()

Ben Hutchings
2018-11-11T20:38:17Z

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

commit d86b5672b1adb98b4cdd6fbf0224bbfb03db6e2e upstream.

Unavoidable crashes in netfront_resume() and netback_changed() after a
previous fail in talk_to_netback() (e.g. when we fail to read MAC from
xenstore) were discovered. The failure path in talk_to_netback() does
unregister/free for netdev but we don't reset drvdata and we try accessing
it after resume.

Fix the bug by removing the whole xen device completely with
device_unregister(), this guarantees we won't have any calls into netfront
after a failure.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1980,8 +1980,7 @@ abort_transaction_no_dev_fatal:
xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
xennet_destroy_queues(info);
out:
- unregister_netdev(info->netdev);
- xennet_free_netdev(info->netdev);
+ device_unregister(&dev->dev);
return err;
}