Revision 3fff0179e33cd7d0a688dab65700c46ad089e934 authored by Mark McLoughlin on 03 February 2009, 03:03:53 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 03 February 2009, 03:17:56 UTC
The host really shouldn't be notifying us of config changes
before the device status is VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER or
VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK.

However, if we do happen to be interrupted while we're not
attached to a driver, we really shouldn't oops. Prevent
this simply by checking that device->driver is non-NULL
before trying to notify the driver of config changes.

Problem observed by doing a "set_link virtio.0 down" with
QEMU before the net driver had been loaded.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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maccess.c
/*
 * Access kernel memory without faulting.
 */
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>

/**
 * probe_kernel_read(): safely attempt to read from a location
 * @dst: pointer to the buffer that shall take the data
 * @src: address to read from
 * @size: size of the data chunk
 *
 * Safely read from address @src to the buffer at @dst.  If a kernel fault
 * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
 */
long probe_kernel_read(void *dst, void *src, size_t size)
{
	long ret;
	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();

	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
	pagefault_disable();
	ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(dst,
			(__force const void __user *)src, size);
	pagefault_enable();
	set_fs(old_fs);

	return ret ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_kernel_read);

/**
 * probe_kernel_write(): safely attempt to write to a location
 * @dst: address to write to
 * @src: pointer to the data that shall be written
 * @size: size of the data chunk
 *
 * Safely write to address @dst from the buffer at @src.  If a kernel fault
 * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
 */
long probe_kernel_write(void *dst, void *src, size_t size)
{
	long ret;
	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();

	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
	pagefault_disable();
	ret = __copy_to_user_inatomic((__force void __user *)dst, src, size);
	pagefault_enable();
	set_fs(old_fs);

	return ret ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_kernel_write);
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