Re: [PATCH] VSOCK: fix vhost virtio_vsock_pkt use-after-free

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On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 07:34:43PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Stash the packet length in a local variable before handing over
> > ownership of the packet to virtio_transport_recv_pkt() or
> > virtio_transport_free_pkt().
> > 
> > This patch solves the use-after-free since pkt is no longer guaranteed
> > to be alive.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> I'd prefer a lower-case prefix, mentioning vhost, such as vhost/vsock.
> I'll tweak it for now.

Thanks, I will use vhost/vsock in the future.

Stefan

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