Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial-bus: Unset hotplug handler when unrealize

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 30/05/2017 10:59, Ladi Prosek wrote:
> Virtio serial device controls the lifetime of virtio-serial-bus and
> virtio-serial-bus links back to the device via its hotplug-handler
> property. This extra ref-count prevents the device from getting
> finalized, leaving the VirtIODevice memory listener registered and
> leading to use-after-free later on.
> 
> This patch addresses the same issue as Fam Zheng's
> "virtio-scsi: Unset hotplug handler when unrealize"
> only for a different virtio device.
> 
> Cc: address@hidden
> Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c b/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
> index d797a67..aa9c11a 100644
> --- a/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
> +++ b/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
> @@ -1121,6 +1121,9 @@ static void virtio_serial_device_unrealize(DeviceState 
> *dev, Error **errp)
>          timer_free(vser->post_load->timer);
>          g_free(vser->post_load);
>      }
> +
> +    qbus_set_hotplug_handler(BUS(&vser->bus), NULL, errp);
> +
>      virtio_cleanup(vdev);
>  }
>  
> 

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>