From: Roger Pau Monné Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 16:34:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: xen-blkback: only read request operation from shared ring once X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f13d75ccb806260079e0679d55d9253e370ec8a;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git xen-blkback: only read request operation from shared ring once A compiler may load a switch statement value multiple times, which could be bad when the value is in memory shared with the frontend. When converting a non-native request to a native one, ensure that src->operation is only loaded once by using READ_ONCE(). This is part of XSA155. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk --- diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h index 68e87a037b99..c929ae22764c 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h @@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_32_req(struct blkif_request *dst, struct blkif_x86_32_request *src) { int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, j; - dst->operation = src->operation; - switch (src->operation) { + dst->operation = READ_ONCE(src->operation); + switch (dst->operation) { case BLKIF_OP_READ: case BLKIF_OP_WRITE: case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER: @@ -456,8 +456,8 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_64_req(struct blkif_request *dst, struct blkif_x86_64_request *src) { int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, j; - dst->operation = src->operation; - switch (src->operation) { + dst->operation = READ_ONCE(src->operation); + switch (dst->operation) { case BLKIF_OP_READ: case BLKIF_OP_WRITE: case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER: