xen-netback: take a reference to the RX task thread

stable inclusion
from stable-5.10.43
commit 6b53db8c4c14b4e7256f058d202908b54a7b85b4
bugzilla: 109284
CVE: NA

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commit 107866a8 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
2ac061ce.

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

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

Fixes: 2ac061ce ('xen/netback: cleanup init and deinit code')
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NChen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>

drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c

@@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ static void xenvif_disconnect_queue(struct xenvif_queue *queue)
 {
 	if (queue->task) {
 		kthread_stop(queue->task);
+		put_task_struct(queue->task);
 		queue->task = NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -745,6 +746,11 @@ int xenvif_connect_data(struct xenvif_queue *queue,
 	if (IS_ERR(task))
 		goto kthread_err;
 	queue->task = task;
+	/*
+	 * Take a reference to the task in order to prevent it from being freed
+	 * if the thread function returns before kthread_stop is called.
+	 */
+	get_task_struct(task);
 
 	task = kthread_run(xenvif_dealloc_kthread, queue,
 			   "%s-dealloc", queue->name);