[PATCH 044/106] macvtap: fix recovery from gup errors
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Jul 30 09:31:03 UTC 2013
3.5.7.18 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com>
commit 4c7ab054ab4f5d63625508ed6f8a607184cae7c2 upstream.
get user pages might fail partially in macvtap zero copy
mode. To recover we need to put all pages that we got,
but code used a wrong index resulting in double-free
errors.
Reported-by: Brad Hubbard <bhubbard at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/macvtap.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
index 2ee56de..d566234 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
@@ -534,8 +534,10 @@ static int zerocopy_sg_from_iovec(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct iovec *from,
return -EMSGSIZE;
num_pages = get_user_pages_fast(base, size, 0, &page[i]);
if (num_pages != size) {
- for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++)
- put_page(page[i]);
+ int j;
+
+ for (j = 0; j < num_pages; j++)
+ put_page(page[i + j]);
return -EFAULT;
}
truesize = size * PAGE_SIZE;
--
1.8.3.2
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