Re: [syzbot] [kvm?] [net?] [virt?] general protection fault in vhost_work_queue

[Mike Christie]

On 5/30/23 8:44 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> 
> From a first glance, it looks like an issue when we call vhost_work_queue().
> @Mike, does that ring any bells since you recently looked at that code?

I see the bug. needed to have set the dev->worker after setting worker->vtsk
like below:


diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index a92af08e7864..7bd95984a501 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -564,7 +564,6 @@ static int vhost_worker_create(struct vhost_dev *dev)
 	if (!worker)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	dev->worker = worker;
 	worker->kcov_handle = kcov_common_handle();
 	init_llist_head(&worker->work_list);
 	snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "vhost-%d", current->pid);
@@ -576,6 +575,7 @@ static int vhost_worker_create(struct vhost_dev *dev)
 	}
 
 	worker->vtsk = vtsk;
+	dev->worker = worker;
 	vhost_task_start(vtsk);
 	return 0;