Re: [PATCH 2/4] vdpa: Protect vdpa reset with cf_mutex

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On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 2:34 AM Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Call reset using the wrapper function vdpa_reset() to make sure the
> operation is serialized with cf_mutex.
>
> This comes to protect from the following possible scenario:
>
> vhost_vdpa_set_status() could call the reset op. Since the call is not
> protected by cf_mutex, a netlink thread calling vdpa_dev_config_fill
> could get passed the VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK check in
> vdpa_dev_config_fill() and end up reporting wrong features.
>
> Fixes: 5f6e85953d8f ("vdpa: Read device configuration only if FEATURES_OK")
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> index 0ed6cbadb52d..851539807bc9 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static long vhost_vdpa_set_status(struct vhost_vdpa *v, u8 __user *statusp)
>                         vhost_vdpa_unsetup_vq_irq(v, i);
>
>         if (status == 0) {
> -               ret = ops->reset(vdpa);
> +               ret = vdpa_reset(vdpa);
>                 if (ret)
>                         return ret;
>         } else
> --
> 2.34.1
>

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