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Roger Pau Monne 6b53db8c4c xen-netback: take a reference to the RX task thread
commit 107866a8eb upstream.

Do this in order to prevent the task from being freed if the thread
returns (which can be triggered by the frontend) before the call to
kthread_stop done as part of the backend tear down. Not taking the
reference will lead to a use-after-free in that scenario. Such
reference was taken before but dropped as part of the rework done in
2ac061ce97.

Reintroduce the reference taking and add a comment this time
explaining why it's needed.

This is XSA-374 / CVE-2021-28691.

Fixes: 2ac061ce97 ('xen/netback: cleanup init and deinit code')
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-06-10 13:39:29 +02:00
arch x86/kvm: Disable all PV features on crash 2021-06-10 13:39:29 +02:00
block blk-mq: Swap two calls in blk_mq_exit_queue() 2021-05-19 10:13:14 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 11:37:59 +01:00
crypto async_xor: increase src_offs when dropping destination page 2021-05-14 09:49:59 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: seccomp: Fix user notification documentation 2021-06-03 09:00:31 +02:00
drivers xen-netback: take a reference to the RX task thread 2021-06-10 13:39:29 +02:00
fs btrfs: fix unmountable seed device after fstrim 2021-06-10 13:39:28 +02:00
include net: caif: add proper error handling 2021-06-10 13:39:24 +02:00
init pid: take a reference when initializing cad_pid 2021-06-10 13:39:26 +02:00
ipc ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry 2021-05-26 12:06:54 +02:00
kernel bpf, lockdown, audit: Fix buggy SELinux lockdown permission checks 2021-06-10 13:39:19 +02:00
lib lib/lz4: explicitly support in-place decompression 2021-06-10 13:39:29 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm, hugetlb: fix simple resv_huge_pages underflow on UFFDIO_COPY 2021-06-10 13:39:28 +02:00
net netfilter: nf_tables: missing error reporting for not selected expressions 2021-06-10 13:39:29 +02:00
samples samples: vfio-mdev: fix error handing in mdpy_fb_probe() 2021-06-10 13:39:15 +02:00
scripts scripts/clang-tools: switch explicitly to Python 3 2021-06-03 09:00:52 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted: Fix memory leak on object td 2021-05-19 10:12:50 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda: update the power_state during the direct-complete 2021-06-10 13:39:25 +02:00
tools wireguard: selftests: make sure rp_filter is disabled on vethc 2021-06-10 13:39:24 +02:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt Revert "irqbypass: do not start cons/prod when failed connect" 2021-06-03 09:00:34 +02:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS f2fs: move ioctl interface definitions to separated file 2021-05-19 10:13:00 +02:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

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.