Re: [PATCH 3/8] xen/blkfront: don't take local copy of a request from the ring page

[Juergen Gross]

On 17.05.21 16:01, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 13.05.2021 12:02, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > In order to avoid a malicious backend being able to influence the local
> > copy of a request build the request locally first and then copy it to
> > the ring page instead of doing it the other way round as today.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> with one remark/question:
>
> > @@ -703,6 +704,7 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, 
struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
> >   {
> >   	struct blkfront_info *info = rinfo->dev_info;
> >   	struct blkif_request *ring_req, *extra_ring_req = NULL;
> > +	struct blkif_request *final_ring_req, *final_extra_ring_req;
>
> Without setting final_extra_ring_req to NULL just like is done for
> extra_ring_req, ...
>
> > @@ -840,10 +845,10 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
> >   	if (setup.segments)
> >   		kunmap_atomic(setup.segments);
> >   
> > -	/* Keep a private copy so we can reissue requests when recovering. */
> > -	rinfo->shadow[id].req = *ring_req;
> > +	/* Copy request(s) to the ring page. */
> > +	*final_ring_req = *ring_req;
> >   	if (unlikely(require_extra_req))
> > -		rinfo->shadow[extra_id].req = *extra_ring_req;
> > +		*final_extra_ring_req = *extra_ring_req;
>
> ... are you sure all supported compilers will recognize the
> conditional use and not warn about use of a possibly uninitialized
> variable?

Hmm, probably better safe than sorry. Will change it.


Juergen

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