In the extremely unlikely event that driver initialization fails after
RX buffers are added, virtio net frees RX buffers while VQs are
still active, potentially causing device to use a freed buffer.
To fix, reset device first - same as we do on device removal.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.h...@de.ibm.com>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 430f3ae..3551417 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1830,6 +1830,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
return 0;
free_recv_bufs:
+ vi->vdev->config->reset(vdev);
+
free_receive_bufs(vi);
unregister_netdev(dev);
free_vqs:
--
MST
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