Stefan Hajnoczi
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If the network stack calls .send_pkt()/.cancel_pkt() during .release(), a struct vhost_vsock use-after-free is possible. This occurs because .release() does not wait for other CPUs to stop using struct vhost_vsock. Switch to an RCU-enabled hashtable (indexed by guest CID) so that .release() can wait for other CPUs by calling synchronize_rcu(). This also eliminates vhost_vsock_lock acquisition in the data path so it could have a positive effect on performance. This is CVE-2018-14625 "kernel: use-after-free Read in vhost_transport_send_pkt". Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+bd391451452fb0b93039@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+e3e074963495f92a89ed@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+d5a0a170c5069658b141@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.