From: Yuqiang Sun <izaiahsun@gmail.com>
To: haiyangz@microsoft.com, wei.liu@kernel.org, decui@microsoft.com
Cc: mhklinux@outlook.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
linmq006@gmail.com, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix the error paths of channel setup
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 16:03:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261103080347.90310-1-izaiahsun@gmail.com> (raw)
When setting up a channel fails, vmbus_add_channel_work() and
vmbus_device_register() do not agree on who cleans up:
- vmbus_add_channel_kobj() drops the channel's last reference when it
fails, and its callers then use the channel and drop it again (patch 1;
this is what our static analysis reported, for the sub-channel path).
Paths that fail before it put a kobject that was never initialized.
- When vmbus_device_register() fails, the device's release calls
hv_process_channel_removal() on a channel that was not rescinded, which
hits BUG_ON(!channel->rescind); vmbus_add_channel_work() would then
clean the channel up a second time (patch 2). Patch 2 leaves the
channel to vmbus_add_channel_work() when device_register() fails, and
keeps the device when only the channel's sysfs entries fail, since a
driver may be bound by then.
Changes in v2 (patch 2 only, after the Sashiko review of v1):
- vmbus_match() skips a device whose channel pointer was cleared, which
a concurrent driver_attach() can still see.
- Failures after device_register() (the channels directory, the primary
channel's kobject and its sysfs group) no longer unregister the
device: a bound driver such as hv_sock, or one that opened
sub-channels, can keep the channel past its remove callback unless the
channel was rescinded. A sub-channel of a device without a channels
directory is refused.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hyperv/20261102094719.35760-1-izaiahsun@gmail.com/
Testing: QEMU (x86_64, KVM, kvm=off with the hv-* enlightenments,
vmbus-bridge and hv-balloon) with KASAN, hv_vmbus and hv_balloon as
modules loaded from init after failslab is armed, on mainline
d135ab453a74. failslab is limited to allocations under
vmbus_device_register(), and fails the N-th one when the hv-balloon
offer is processed. Without the series, every failure hits the BUG_ON.
With it, for N = 1 to 95:
- 53 failures in device_register() leave the offer unbound with
"unable to add child device object";
- 31 failures in the channels directory, the channel's kobject or its
sysfs group leave the device registered and bound to hv_balloon, with
the channel missing from sysfs; unbinding the driver and binding it
again works;
- the other runs fail an allocation whose failure is handled, or none.
No run reports anything (no BUG, KASAN, WARNING or refcount_t message).
The sub-channel paths are not covered: QEMU's VMBus offers no
sub-channels, cannot rescind a channel, and hv_balloon cannot be
unloaded.
The failures need an allocation failure while the guest processes a
channel offer from the host.
Yuqiang Sun (2):
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Keep the channel when vmbus_add_channel_kobj()
fails
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Do not remove the channel when device registration
fails
drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 5 +--
drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h | 1 +
drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
base-commit: d135ab453a7400a34930bdda1ef4bdc8acfac80e
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-03 8:03 Yuqiang Sun [this message]
2026-11-03 8:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Keep the channel when vmbus_add_channel_kobj() fails Yuqiang Sun
2026-11-03 8:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Do not remove the channel when device registration fails Yuqiang Sun
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