From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Without the patch, vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister() can destroy the device
prematurely when close() is called, and can cause NULl dereferencing or
potential data loss (the last portion of the data stream may be dropped
prematurely).
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Please consider this for 4.14.
V2: Moved some comments around (Dan Carpenter)
drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
index 018d2e0f8ec5..379b0df123be 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
@@ -937,7 +937,10 @@ void vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister(struct vmbus_channel *channel)
{
BUG_ON(!is_hvsock_channel(channel));
- channel->rescind = true;
+ /* We always get a rescind msg when a connection is closed. */
+ while (!READ_ONCE(channel->probe_done) || !READ_ONCE(channel->rescind))
+ msleep(1);
+
vmbus_device_unregister(channel->device_obj);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmbus_hvsock_device_unregister);
--
2.14.1
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