Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] vhost: release memory_listener object in error path

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 7:41 PM P J P <ppandit@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From: Prasad Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>
>
> vhost_dev_start function does not release memory_listener object
> in case of an error. This may crash the guest when vhost is unable
> to set memory table:
>
>   stack trace of thread 125653:
>   Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault
>   #0  memory_listener_register (qemu-kvm + 0x6cda0f)
>   #1  vhost_dev_start (qemu-kvm + 0x699301)
>   #2  vhost_net_start (qemu-kvm + 0x45b03f)
>   #3  virtio_net_set_status (qemu-kvm + 0x665672)
>   #4  qmp_set_link (qemu-kvm + 0x548fd5)
>   #5  net_vhost_user_event (qemu-kvm + 0x552c45)
>   #6  tcp_chr_connect (qemu-kvm + 0x88d473)
>   #7  tcp_chr_new_client (qemu-kvm + 0x88cf83)
>   #8  tcp_chr_accept (qemu-kvm + 0x88b429)
>   #9  qio_net_listener_channel_func (qemu-kvm + 0x7ac07c)
>   #10 g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x54e2f)
>
> Release memory_listener objects in the error path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Prasad Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Thanks

> ---
>  hw/virtio/vhost.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> v2: split a single patch into two. Mention about vhost set mem table failure
> resulting in guest crash.
>
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> index 23da579ce2..6be4a0626a 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> @@ -2004,6 +2004,9 @@ fail_vq:
>      }
>
>  fail_mem:
> +    if (vhost_dev_has_iommu(hdev)) {
> +        memory_listener_unregister(&hdev->iommu_listener);
> +    }
>  fail_features:
>      vdev->vhost_started = false;
>      hdev->started = false;
> --
> 2.40.1
>