This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vhost/vsock: handle vhost_vq_init_access() error to the 4.9-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-handle-vhost_vq_init_access-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 15 16:23:30 CEST 2017 From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:43:53 +0000 Subject: vhost/vsock: handle vhost_vq_init_access() error From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0516ffd88fa0d006ee80389ce14a9ca5ae45e845 ] Propagate the error when vhost_vq_init_access() fails and set vq->private_data to NULL. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c @@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ static void vhost_vsock_handle_rx_kick(s static int vhost_vsock_start(struct vhost_vsock *vsock) { + struct vhost_virtqueue *vq; size_t i; int ret; @@ -378,19 +379,20 @@ static int vhost_vsock_start(struct vhos goto err; for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(vsock->vqs); i++) { - struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &vsock->vqs[i]; + vq = &vsock->vqs[i]; mutex_lock(&vq->mutex); if (!vhost_vq_access_ok(vq)) { ret = -EFAULT; - mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex); goto err_vq; } if (!vq->private_data) { vq->private_data = vsock; - vhost_vq_init_access(vq); + ret = vhost_vq_init_access(vq); + if (ret) + goto err_vq; } mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex); @@ -400,8 +402,11 @@ static int vhost_vsock_start(struct vhos return 0; err_vq: + vq->private_data = NULL; + mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex); + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(vsock->vqs); i++) { - struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &vsock->vqs[i]; + vq = &vsock->vqs[i]; mutex_lock(&vq->mutex); vq->private_data = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/vhost-vsock-handle-vhost_vq_init_access-error.patch