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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@vmware.com>
Cc: <aditr@vmware.com>, <dledford@redhat.com>,
	<linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	<pv-drivers@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-rc] RDMA/vmw_pvrdma: Correctly set and check device ib_active status
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:16:11 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200921141611.GS3699@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918023859.22181-1-vdasa@vmware.com>

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:38:59AM +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote:
> Avoid calling ib_dispatch_event on an inactive device in order to
> prevent writing to invalid I/O mapped addresses which could cause a
> guest crash.
> 
> Also, set the ib_active status to 'false' in pvrdma_pci_remove and
> in the failure path of pvrdma_pci_probe.
> 
> Fixes: 29c8d9eba550 ("IB: Add vmw_pvrdma driver")
> Acked-by: Adit Ranadive <aditr@vmware.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@vmware.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/pvrdma_main.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

To fix this bug you need to change pvrdma_netdevice_event to use
ib_device_get_by_netdev() instead of the pvrdma_device_list global

And then use ib_device_put in the pvrdma_netdevice_event_work() once
the pointer is no longer needed.

The core code handles all the required locking

Jason

      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-18  2:38 [PATCH for-rc] RDMA/vmw_pvrdma: Correctly set and check device ib_active status Vishnu Dasa
2020-09-21 14:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]

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