Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_console: fix a crash in config_work_handler

From: Amit Shah
Date: Mon Jan 16 2017 - 05:27:32 EST


On (Mon) 16 Jan 2017 [10:45:02], G. Campana wrote:
> Using control_work instead of config_work as the 3rd argument to
> container_of results in an invalid portdev pointer. Indeed, the work
> structure is initialized as below:
>
> INIT_WORK(&portdev->config_work, &config_work_handler);
>
> It leads to a crash when portdev->vdev is dereferenced later. This bug
> is triggered when the guest uses a virtio-console without multiport
> feature and receives a config_changed virtio interrupt.
>
> Signed-off-by: G. Campana <gcampana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>

Michael, can you please pick this up?

Amit