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vhost/vsock: Fix error handling in vhost_vsock_init()

Message ID 20221108091357.115738-1-yuancan@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series vhost/vsock: Fix error handling in vhost_vsock_init() | expand

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Yuan Can Nov. 8, 2022, 9:13 a.m. UTC
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: c0cfa2d8a788 ("vsock: add multi-transports support")
Signed-off-by: Yuan Can <yuancan@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Stefano Garzarella Nov. 8, 2022, 9:33 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:13:57AM +0000, Yuan Can wrote:
>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.

Thanks for this fix!

>
>Fixes: c0cfa2d8a788 ("vsock: add multi-transports support")

Is this the right tag?

It seems to me that since the introduction of vhost-vsock we have the 
same problem (to be solved differently, because with the introduction of 
multi-transport we refactored the initialization functions).

So should we use 433fc58e6bf2 ("VSOCK: Introduce vhost_vsock.ko")?

Thanks,
Stefano

>Signed-off-by: Yuan Can <yuancan@huawei.com>
>---
> drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
>index 5703775af129..10a7d23731fe 100644
>--- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
>+++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
>@@ -959,7 +959,14 @@ 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)
>-- 
>2.17.1
>
Yuan Can Nov. 8, 2022, 10:15 a.m. UTC | #2
在 2022/11/8 17:33, Stefano Garzarella 写道:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:13:57AM +0000, Yuan Can wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for this fix!
>
>>
>> Fixes: c0cfa2d8a788 ("vsock: add multi-transports support")
>
> Is this the right tag?
>
> It seems to me that since the introduction of vhost-vsock we have the 
> same problem (to be solved differently, because with the introduction 
> of multi-transport we refactored the initialization functions).
>
> So should we use 433fc58e6bf2 ("VSOCK: Introduce vhost_vsock.ko")?
Thanks for pointing out this problem! I will use the correct tag in the 
v2 patch.
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diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
index 5703775af129..10a7d23731fe 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
@@ -959,7 +959,14 @@  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)