[PATCH 4/4] hyperv: netvsc: improve protection against rescind offer

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Tue Feb 03 2015 - 12:01:01 EST


The check added in commit c3582a2c4d0b ("hyperv: Add support for vNIC hot
removal") is incomplete as there is no synchronization between
vmbus_onoffer_rescind() and netvsc_send(). In case we get the offer after we
checked out_channel->rescind and before netvsc_send() finishes its job we can
get a crash as we'll be dealing with already freed channel.

Make netvsc_send() take additional reference to the channel with newly
introduced vmbus_get_channel(), this guarantees we won't lose the channel. We
can still get rescind while we're processing but this won't cause a crash.

Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
index 9f49c01..d9b13a1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -763,11 +763,16 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
out_channel = net_device->chn_table[packet->q_idx];
if (out_channel == NULL)
out_channel = device->channel;
- packet->channel = out_channel;
+ packet->channel = vmbus_get_channel(out_channel);

- if (out_channel->rescind)
+ if (!packet->channel)
return -ENODEV;

+ if (out_channel->rescind) {
+ vmbus_put_channel(out_channel);
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
if (packet->page_buf_cnt) {
ret = vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer(out_channel,
packet->page_buf,
@@ -810,6 +815,7 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
packet, ret);
}

+ vmbus_put_channel(packet->channel);
return ret;
}

--
1.9.3

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