In the extremely unlikely event that driver initialization fails after RX buffers are added, virtio net frees RX buffers while VQs are still active, potentially causing device to use a freed buffer. To fix, reset device first - same as we do on device removal. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 7afc990..85e6098 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1830,6 +1830,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) return 0; free_recv_bufs: + vi->vdev->config->reset(vdev); + free_receive_bufs(vi); unregister_netdev(dev); free_vqs: -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
