Re: [PATCH net] vhost-net: fix use-after-free in vhost_net_flush

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 02:48:13PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait has a confusing name:
> it will actually also free it's argument.
> Thus since commit 1280c27f8e29acf4af2da914e80ec27c3dbd5c01
> vhost_net_flush tries to use the argument after passing it
> to vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait, this results
> in use after free.
> To fix, don't free the argument in vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait,
> add an new API for callers that want to free ubufs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Asias He <asias@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
> Dave, this is needed for stable as well, but
> the code has moved a bit since then.
> I'll post a patch tweaked to apply against 3.9 and 3.8 separately.
> 
>  drivers/vhost/net.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> index 5c77d6a..534adb0 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> @@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ static void vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait(struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *ubufs)
>  {
>  	kref_put(&ubufs->kref, vhost_net_zerocopy_done_signal);
>  	wait_event(ubufs->wait, !atomic_read(&ubufs->kref.refcount));
> +}
> +
> +static void vhost_net_ubuf_put_wait_and_free(struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *ubufs)
> +{
> +	vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait(ubufs);
>  	kfree(ubufs);
>  }
>  
> @@ -1073,7 +1078,7 @@ static long vhost_net_set_backend(struct vhost_net *n, unsigned index, int fd)
>  	mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
>  
>  	if (oldubufs) {
> -		vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait(oldubufs);
> +		vhost_net_ubuf_put_wait_and_free(oldubufs);
>  		mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
>  		vhost_zerocopy_signal_used(n, vq);
>  		mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
> @@ -1091,7 +1096,7 @@ err_used:
>  	vq->private_data = oldsock;
>  	vhost_net_enable_vq(n, vq);
>  	if (ubufs)
> -		vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait(ubufs);
> +		vhost_net_ubuf_put_wait_and_free(ubufs);
>  err_ubufs:
>  	fput(sock->file);
>  err_vq:
> -- 
> MST

-- 
Asias
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