From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8c7885e5690be9a27231ebebf82ef29fbf46c4e4 ] There is a race condition for an established connection that is being closed by the guest: the refcnt is 4 at the end of hvs_release() (Note: here the 'remove_sock' is false): 1 for the initial value; 1 for the sk being in the bound list; 1 for the sk being in the connected list; 1 for the delayed close_work. After hvs_release() finishes, __vsock_release() -> sock_put(sk) *may* decrease the refcnt to 3. Concurrently, hvs_close_connection() runs in another thread: calls vsock_remove_sock() to decrease the refcnt by 2; call sock_put() to decrease the refcnt to 0, and free the sk; next, the "release_sock(sk)" may hang due to use-after-free. In the above, after hvs_release() finishes, if hvs_close_connection() runs faster than "__vsock_release() -> sock_put(sk)", then there is not any issue, because at the beginning of hvs_close_connection(), the refcnt is still 4. The issue can be resolved if an extra reference is taken when the connection is established. Fixes: a9eeb998c28d ("hv_sock: Add support for delayed close") Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c @@ -311,6 +311,11 @@ static void hvs_close_connection(struct lock_sock(sk); hvs_do_close_lock_held(vsock_sk(sk), true); release_sock(sk); + + /* Release the refcnt for the channel that's opened in + * hvs_open_connection(). + */ + sock_put(sk); } static void hvs_open_connection(struct vmbus_channel *chan) @@ -378,6 +383,9 @@ static void hvs_open_connection(struct v } set_per_channel_state(chan, conn_from_host ? new : sk); + + /* This reference will be dropped by hvs_close_connection(). */ + sock_hold(conn_from_host ? new : sk); vmbus_set_chn_rescind_callback(chan, hvs_close_connection); /* Set the pending send size to max packet size to always get