If the backend sends a request just before closing the socket, the aio dispatcher might schedule its reading after the vhost device has been cleaned, leading to a NULL pointer dereference in slave_read();
vhost_user_cleanup() already closes the socket but it is not enough, the handler has to be unregistered. Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> --- hw/virtio/vhost-user.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c index 958ee09..2203011 100644 --- a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c @@ -779,6 +779,7 @@ static int vhost_user_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev) u = dev->opaque; if (u->slave_fd >= 0) { + qemu_set_fd_handler(u->slave_fd, NULL, NULL, NULL); close(u->slave_fd); u->slave_fd = -1; } -- 2.9.4