[PATCH v2] xen/blkfront: avoid NULL blkfront_info dereference on device removal

From: Vasilis Liaskovitis
Date: Mon Oct 15 2018 - 09:25:45 EST


If a block device is hot-added when we are out of grants,
gnttab_grant_foreign_access fails with -ENOSPC (log message "28
granting access to ring page") in this code path:

talk_to_blkback ->
setup_blkring ->
xenbus_grant_ring ->
gnttab_grant_foreign_access

and the failing path in talk_to_blkback sets the driver_data to NULL:

destroy_blkring:
blkif_free(info, 0);

mutex_lock(&blkfront_mutex);
free_info(info);
mutex_unlock(&blkfront_mutex);

dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, NULL);

This results in a NULL pointer BUG when blkfront_remove and blkif_free
try to access the failing device's NULL struct blkfront_info.

Signed-off-by: Vasilis Liaskovitis <vliaskovitis@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 429d20131c7e..8871bf4c8a2e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -2493,6 +2493,9 @@ static int blkfront_remove(struct xenbus_device *xbdev)

dev_dbg(&xbdev->dev, "%s removed", xbdev->nodename);

+ if (!info)
+ return 0;
+
blkif_free(info, 0);

mutex_lock(&info->mutex);
--
2.19.0