[PATCH v2 3/3] xen-blkfront: transverse list of persistent grants safely

From: Roger Pau Monne
Date: Mon Dec 10 2012 - 12:25:29 EST


Use llist_for_each_entry_safe in blkif_free. Previously grants where
freed while iterating the list, which lead to dereferences when trying
to fetch the next item.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 96e9b00..cfdb033 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -792,6 +792,7 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
{
struct llist_node *all_gnts;
struct grant *persistent_gnt;
+ struct llist_node *n;

/* Prevent new requests being issued until we fix things up. */
spin_lock_irq(&info->io_lock);
@@ -804,7 +805,7 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
/* Remove all persistent grants */
if (info->persistent_gnts_c) {
all_gnts = llist_del_all(&info->persistent_gnts);
- llist_for_each_entry(persistent_gnt, all_gnts, node) {
+ llist_for_each_entry_safe(persistent_gnt, n, all_gnts, node) {
gnttab_end_foreign_access(persistent_gnt->gref, 0, 0UL);
__free_page(pfn_to_page(persistent_gnt->pfn));
kfree(persistent_gnt);
--
1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26)

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