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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> | 2016-05-23 00:44:57 -0600 |
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| committer | Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> | 2016-06-13 14:32:28 +0100 |
| commit | 4837a1a51638ef1719bf8149591a57e7207db41a (patch) | |
| tree | 443bc72bdf7d1138c736c0f7d5eafb5869a7e3d1 /hw/block/xen_blkif.h | |
| parent | 55e5c3a2d2433bd2e1e635a7ba395f1c70341794 (diff) | |
xen/blkif: avoid double access to any shared ring request fields
Commit f9e98e5d7a ("xen/blkif: Avoid double access to
src->nr_segments") didn't go far enough: src->operation is also being
used twice. And nothing was done to prevent the compiler from using the
source side of the copy done by blk_get_request() (granted that's very
unlikely).
Move the barrier()s up, and add another one to blk_get_request().
Note that for completing XSA-155, the barrier() getting added to
blk_get_request() would suffice, and hence the changes to xen_blkif.h
are more like just cleanup. And since, as said, the unpatched code
getting compiled to something vulnerable is very unlikely (and not
observed in practice), this isn't being viewed as a new security issue.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/block/xen_blkif.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | hw/block/xen_blkif.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/hw/block/xen_blkif.h b/hw/block/xen_blkif.h index c68487cb31..e3b133b9f8 100644 --- a/hw/block/xen_blkif.h +++ b/hw/block/xen_blkif.h @@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_32_req(blkif_request_t *dst, blkif_x86_32_reque dst->handle = src->handle; dst->id = src->id; dst->sector_number = src->sector_number; - if (src->operation == BLKIF_OP_DISCARD) { + /* Prevent the compiler from using src->... instead. */ + barrier(); + if (dst->operation == BLKIF_OP_DISCARD) { struct blkif_request_discard *s = (void *)src; struct blkif_request_discard *d = (void *)dst; d->nr_sectors = s->nr_sectors; return; } - /* prevent the compiler from optimizing the code and using src->nr_segments instead */ - barrier(); if (n > dst->nr_segments) n = dst->nr_segments; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) @@ -102,14 +102,14 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_64_req(blkif_request_t *dst, blkif_x86_64_reque dst->handle = src->handle; dst->id = src->id; dst->sector_number = src->sector_number; - if (src->operation == BLKIF_OP_DISCARD) { + /* Prevent the compiler from using src->... instead. */ + barrier(); + if (dst->operation == BLKIF_OP_DISCARD) { struct blkif_request_discard *s = (void *)src; struct blkif_request_discard *d = (void *)dst; d->nr_sectors = s->nr_sectors; return; } - /* prevent the compiler from optimizing the code and using src->nr_segments instead */ - barrier(); if (n > dst->nr_segments) n = dst->nr_segments; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) |