On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:39:16PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
Commit 7918bb2d19c9 ("vhost: basic in order support") introduces
vq->nheads to store the number of batched used buffers per used elem
but it forgets to initialize the vq->nheads to NULL in
vhost_dev_init() this will cause kfree() that would try to free it
without be allocated if SET_OWNER is not called.
Reported-by: JAEHOON KIM <jhkim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 7918bb2d19c9 ("vhost: basic in order support")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index a4873d116df1..b4dfe38c7008 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ void vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *dev,
vq->log = NULL;
vq->indirect = NULL;
vq->heads = NULL;
+ vq->nheads = NULL;
vq->dev = dev;
mutex_init(&vq->mutex);
vhost_vq_reset(dev, vq);
--
2.39.5
