[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 237/305] xen-scsiback: safely copy requests

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Fri Jan 15 2016 - 19:27:45 EST


4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit be69746ec12f35b484707da505c6c76ff06f97dc upstream.

The copy of the ring request was lacking a following barrier(),
potentially allowing the compiler to optimize the copy away.

Use RING_COPY_REQUEST() to ensure the request is copied to local
memory.

This is part of XSA155.

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c b/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
index 9eeefd7..2af9aa8 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ static int scsiback_do_cmd_fn(struct vscsibk_info *info)
if (!pending_req)
return 1;

- ring_req = *RING_GET_REQUEST(ring, rc);
+ RING_COPY_REQUEST(ring, rc, &ring_req);
ring->req_cons = ++rc;

err = prepare_pending_reqs(info, &ring_req, pending_req);
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1.9.1