vhost-vdpa: drop the parent's vq callback before the call fd is released

VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL releases the previous call eventfd inside
vhost_vring_ioctl() -- it swaps the new context into vq->call_ctx.ctx
and then eventfd_ctx_put()s the old one, which is a synchronous
kfree(). The parent vdpa device is only told about the change
afterwards, when vhost_vdpa_vring_ioctl() reaches ops->set_vq_cb().

Parent drivers cache the pointer handed to them in
vdpa_callback::trigger and do not take a reference on it, so
throughout that window the parent holds a dangling eventfd_ctx and may
signal it. The documentation added with the field describes what
signalling it means but says nothing about how long it stays valid.

This is the same hazard that "vhost_vdpa: assign irq bypass producer
token correctly" addressed for the irq bypass producer token, by
moving vhost_vdpa_unsetup_vq_irq() ahead of the vhost_vring_ioctl()
call. The producer token was only one of the two consumers of that
pointer; the one the parent keeps via ->set_vq_cb() was left behind
the free.

With VDUSE the window is directly reachable from userspace, because
the device emulation daemon can inject an interrupt at any time from a
different fd, and neither side shares a lock with the other: VDUSE
takes vq->irq_lock, vhost takes vhost_dev.mutex + vq->mutex.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x76/0xe0
  Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881084e8788 by task vduse_uaf/2987

  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x76/0xe0
  eventfd_signal_mask+0x69/0x120
  vduse_dev_ioctl+0x337/0x1a60     <- vduse_vq_signal_irqfd(), inlined
  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x120/0x170      <- VDUSE_VQ_INJECT_IRQ

  Allocated by task 2986:
   do_eventfd+0x50/0x200
   __x64_sys_eventfd2+0x2e/0x40

  kmalloc-64, freed 64-byte region [ffff8881084e8780, ffff8881084e87c0)

One thread loops VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL on /dev/vhost-vdpa-N with a
fresh eventfd and then unbinds it, while another loops
VDUSE_VQ_INJECT_IRQ on /dev/vduse/<name>. This reproduces in 5 out of
5 ten-second runs on v7.1.6 and 3 out of 3 on v7.2-rc6. With the patch
there are no reports in 3 out of 3 runs on either, while the same
workload still gets ~30000 interrupts per run delivered into live
eventfds, so the path is still being exercised.

Tell the parent to drop the callback before vhost_vring_ioctl() can
free the eventfd, mirroring what is already done for the bypass
producer, and restore it if the ioctl fails -- on failure the swap
never happened, the old context is still installed, and leaving the
parent without a callback would silently drop that vq's interrupts.

Fixes: 5e68470f4e80 ("vdpa: Add eventfd for the vdpa callback")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yuz08559@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20260806150323.2154-1-yuz08559@gmail.com>

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