[PATCH 3.10 036/319] xen-blkback: only read request operation from shared ring once

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Sun Feb 05 2017 - 15:21:33 EST


From: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 1f13d75ccb806260079e0679d55d9253e370ec8a upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
index 60103e2..6774cba 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ 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;
- 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:
@@ -305,8 +305,8 @@ 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;
- 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:
--
2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a