[PATCH] hv_netvsc: Make sure out channel is fully opened on send

From: Mohammed Gamal
Date: Wed Sep 26 2018 - 12:34:39 EST


Dring high network traffic changes to network interface parameters
such as number of channels or MTU can cause a kernel panic with a NULL
pointer dereference. This is due to netvsc_device_remove() being
called and deallocating the channel ring buffers, which can then be
accessed by netvsc_send_pkt() before they're allocated on calling
netvsc_device_add()

The patch fixes this problem by checking the channel state and returning
ENODEV if not yet opened. We also move the call to hv_ringbuf_avail_percent()
which may access the uninitialized ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
index fe01e14..75f1b31 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -825,7 +825,12 @@ static inline int netvsc_send_pkt(
struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(ndev, packet->q_idx);
u64 req_id;
int ret;
- u32 ring_avail = hv_get_avail_to_write_percent(&out_channel->outbound);
+ u32 ring_avail;
+
+ if (out_channel->state != CHANNEL_OPENED_STATE)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ ring_avail = hv_get_avail_to_write_percent(&out_channel->outbound);

nvmsg.hdr.msg_type = NVSP_MSG1_TYPE_SEND_RNDIS_PKT;
if (skb)
--
1.8.3.1