> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kelley (LINUX) <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2023 9:27 AM > To: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Dexuan Cui > <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Paul Rosswurm > <paulros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx; > davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [PATCH net, 2/2] net: mana: Fix accessing freed irq affinity_hint > > From: LKML haiyangz <lkmlhyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Haiyang Zhang > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2023 1:05 PM > > > > After calling irq_set_affinity_and_hint(), the cpumask pointer is > > saved in desc->affinity_hint, and will be used later when reading > > /proc/irq/<num>/affinity_hint. So the cpumask variable needs to be > > allocated per irq, and available until freeing the irq. Otherwise, > > we are accessing freed memory when reading the affinity_hint file. > > > > To fix the bug, allocate the cpumask per irq, and free it just > > before freeing the irq. > > Since the cpumask being passed to irq_set_affinity_and_hint() > always contains exactly one CPU, the code can be considerably > simplified by using the pre-calculated and persistent masks > available as cpumask_of(cpu). All allocation of cpumasks in this > code goes away, and you can set the affinity_hint to NULL in the > cleanup and remove paths without having to free any masks. > Great idea! Will update the patch accordingly. - Haiyang
