From: Prasad Pandit <p...@fedoraproject.org> vhost_dev_start function does not release memory objects in case of an error. This may crash the guest with:
stack trace of thread 125653: Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault #0 memory_listener_register (qemu-kvm + 0x6cda0f) #1 vhost_dev_start (qemu-kvm + 0x699301) #2 vhost_net_start (qemu-kvm + 0x45b03f) #3 virtio_net_set_status (qemu-kvm + 0x665672) #4 qmp_set_link (qemu-kvm + 0x548fd5) #5 net_vhost_user_event (qemu-kvm + 0x552c45) #6 tcp_chr_connect (qemu-kvm + 0x88d473) #7 tcp_chr_new_client (qemu-kvm + 0x88cf83) #8 tcp_chr_accept (qemu-kvm + 0x88b429) #9 qio_net_listener_channel_func (qemu-kvm + 0x7ac07c) #10 g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x54e2f) Release memory_listener and virtqueue objects in the error path. Signed-off-by: Prasad Pandit <p...@fedoraproject.org> --- hw/virtio/vhost.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) v1: log debug message when event_notifier_init fails diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c index 23da579ce2..1de3029ae7 100644 --- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c @@ -1942,7 +1942,8 @@ int vhost_dev_start(struct vhost_dev *hdev, VirtIODevice *vdev, bool vrings) r = event_notifier_init( &hdev->vqs[VHOST_QUEUE_NUM_CONFIG_INR].masked_config_notifier, 0); if (r < 0) { - return r; + VHOST_OPS_DEBUG(r, "event_notifier_init failed"); + goto fail_vq; } event_notifier_test_and_clear( &hdev->vqs[VHOST_QUEUE_NUM_CONFIG_INR].masked_config_notifier); @@ -2004,6 +2005,9 @@ fail_vq: } fail_mem: + if (vhost_dev_has_iommu(hdev)) { + memory_listener_unregister(&hdev->iommu_listener); + } fail_features: vdev->vhost_started = false; hdev->started = false; -- 2.40.1