Re: [PATCH v4] xen: detect uninitialized xenbus in xenbus_init

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 11/23/21 4:07 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If the xenstore page hasn't been allocated properly, reading the value
> of the related hvm_param (HVM_PARAM_STORE_PFN) won't actually return
> error. Instead, it will succeed and return zero. Instead of attempting
> to xen_remap a bad guest physical address, detect this condition and
> return early.
>
> Note that although a guest physical address of zero for
> HVM_PARAM_STORE_PFN is theoretically possible, it is not a good choice
> and zero has never been validly used in that capacity.
>
> Also recognize all bits set as an invalid value.
>
> For 32-bit Linux, any pfn above ULONG_MAX would get truncated. Pfns
> above ULONG_MAX should never be passed by the Xen tools to HVM guests
> anyway, so check for this condition and return early.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>


Applied to for-linus-5.16c


-boris