Patch "xen-netfront: avoid crashing on resume after a failure in talk_to_netback()" 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

    xen-netfront: avoid crashing on resume after a failure in talk_to_netback()

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:
     xen-netfront-avoid-crashing-on-resume-after-a-failure-in-talk_to_netback.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 d86b5672b1adb98b4cdd6fbf0224bbfb03db6e2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 13:58:06 +0200
Subject: xen-netfront: avoid crashing on resume after a failure in talk_to_netback()

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>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 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
@@ -1958,8 +1958,7 @@ 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;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vkuznets@redhat.com are

queue-4.9/xen-netfront-avoid-crashing-on-resume-after-a-failure-in-talk_to_netback.patch