[PATCH] xen/hvc: Check HVM_PARAM_CONSOLE_[EVTCHN|PFN] forcorrectness.

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Wed May 23 2012 - 12:56:59 EST


We need to make sure that those parameters are setup to be correct.
As such the value of 0 is deemed invalid and we find that we
bail out. The hypervisor sets by default all of them to be zero
and when the hypercall is done does a simple:

a.value = d->arch.hvm_domain.params[a.index];

Which means that if the Xen toolstack forgot to setup the proper
HVM_PARAM_CONSOLE_EVTCHN (or the PFN one), we would get the
default value of 0 and use that.

CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14091238
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
index 3277f0e..944eaeb 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
@@ -214,14 +214,19 @@ static int xen_hvm_console_init(void)
/* already configured */
if (info->intf != NULL)
return 0;
-
+ /*
+ * If the toolstack (or the hypervisor) hasn't set these values, the
+ * default value is 0. Even though mfn = 0 and evtchn = 0 are
+ * theoretically correct values, in practice they never are and they
+ * mean that a legacy toolstack hasn't initialized the pv console correctly.
+ */
r = hvm_get_parameter(HVM_PARAM_CONSOLE_EVTCHN, &v);
- if (r < 0)
+ if (r < 0 || v == 0)
goto err;
info->evtchn = v;
v = 0;
r = hvm_get_parameter(HVM_PARAM_CONSOLE_PFN, &v);
- if (r < 0)
+ if (r < 0 || v == 0)
goto err;
mfn = v;
info->intf = ioremap(mfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE);
--
1.7.7.5

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