From: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.and...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, April 16, 
2021 7:40 AM
> 
> If a malicious or compromised Hyper-V sends a spurious message of type
> CHANNELMSG_UNLOAD_RESPONSE, the function vmbus_unload_response() will
> call complete() on an uninitialized event, and cause an oops.

Please leave a comment somewhere in the code itself that describes this
scenario so that somebody in the future doesn't decide it's OK to "simplify" the
initialization of unload_event. :-)

Michael

> 
> Reported-by: Michael Kelley <mikel...@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.and...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/hv/connection.c   | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
> index f3cf4af01e102..1efb616480a64 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
> @@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ void vmbus_initiate_unload(bool crash)
>       if (vmbus_proto_version < VERSION_WIN8_1)
>               return;
> 
> -     init_completion(&vmbus_connection.unload_event);
> +     reinit_completion(&vmbus_connection.unload_event);
>       memset(&hdr, 0, sizeof(struct vmbus_channel_message_header));
>       hdr.msgtype = CHANNELMSG_UNLOAD;
>       vmbus_post_msg(&hdr, sizeof(struct vmbus_channel_message_header),
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c
> index 350e8c5cafa8c..529dcc47f3e11 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/connection.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
> 
>  struct vmbus_connection vmbus_connection = {
>       .conn_state             = DISCONNECTED,
> +     .unload_event           = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER(
> +                               vmbus_connection.unload_event),
>       .next_gpadl_handle      = ATOMIC_INIT(0xE1E10),
> 
>       .ready_for_suspend_event = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER(
> --
> 2.25.1

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