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    vhost: Fix crash during early vhost_transport_send_pkt calls · a284f09e
    Mike Christie authored
    If userspace does VHOST_VSOCK_SET_GUEST_CID before VHOST_SET_OWNER we
    can race where:
    1. thread0 calls vhost_transport_send_pkt -> vhost_work_queue
    2. thread1 does VHOST_SET_OWNER which calls vhost_worker_create.
    3. vhost_worker_create will set the dev->worker pointer before setting
    the worker->vtsk pointer.
    4. thread0's vhost_work_queue will see the dev->worker pointer is
    set and try to call vhost_task_wake using not yet set worker->vtsk
    pointer.
    5. We then crash since vtsk is NULL.
    
    Before commit 6e890c5d ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker
    threads"), we only had the worker pointer so we could just check it to
    see if VHOST_SET_OWNER has been done. After that commit we have the
    vhost_worker and vhost_task pointer, so we can now hit the bug above.
    
    This patch embeds the vhost_worker in the vhost_dev and moves the work
    list initialization back to vhost_dev_init, so we can just check the
    worker.vtsk pointer to check if VHOST_SET_OWNER has been done like
    before.
    
    Fixes: 6e890c5d ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
    Message-Id: <20230607192338.6041-2-michael.christie@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
    Reported-by: syzbot+d0d442c22fa8db45ff0e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
    Reviewed-by: default avatarStefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
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