This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vhost/vsock: Fix error handling in vhost_vsock_init()
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
vhost-vsock-fix-error-handling-in-vhost_vsock_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit c16e2f737ce8ca4b8ca7537af351af8503334f82
Author: Yuan Can <yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 8 10:17:05 2022 +0000
vhost/vsock: Fix error handling in vhost_vsock_init()
[ Upstream commit 7a4efe182ca61fb3e5307e69b261c57cbf434cd4 ]
A problem about modprobe vhost_vsock failed is triggered with the
following log given:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vhost_vsock': Device or resource busy
The reason is that vhost_vsock_init() returns misc_register() directly
without checking its return value, if misc_register() failed, it returns
without calling vsock_core_unregister() on vhost_transport, resulting the
vhost_vsock can never be installed later.
A simple call graph is shown as below:
vhost_vsock_init()
vsock_core_register() # register vhost_transport
misc_register()
device_create_with_groups()
device_create_groups_vargs()
dev = kzalloc(...) # OOM happened
# return without unregister vhost_transport
Fix by calling vsock_core_unregister() when misc_register() returns error.
Fixes: 433fc58e6bf2 ("VSOCK: Introduce vhost_vsock.ko")
Signed-off-by: Yuan Can <yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20221108101705.45981-1-yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
index b0153617fe0e..7bce5f982e58 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
@@ -854,7 +854,14 @@ static int __init vhost_vsock_init(void)
VSOCK_TRANSPORT_F_H2G);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
- return misc_register(&vhost_vsock_misc);
+
+ ret = misc_register(&vhost_vsock_misc);
+ if (ret) {
+ vsock_core_unregister(&vhost_transport.transport);
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
};
static void __exit vhost_vsock_exit(void)
