tools/xenstore: Fail a transaction if it is not possible to create a node
Commit
f2bebf72c4d5 "xenstore: rework of transaction handling" moved
out from copying the entire database everytime a new transaction is
opened to track the list of nodes changed.
The content of all the nodes accessed during a transaction will be
temporarily stored in TDB using a different key.
The function create_node() may write/update multiple nodes if the child
doesn't exist. In case of a failure, the function will revert any
changes (this include any update to TDB). Unfortunately, the function
which reverts the changes (i.e. destroy_node()) will not use the correct
key to delete any update or even request the transaction to fail.
This means that if a client decide to go ahead with committing the
transaction, orphan nodes will be created because they were not linked
to an existing node (create_node() will write the nodes backwards).
Once some nodes have been partially updated in a transaction, it is not
easily possible to undo any changes. So rather than continuing and hit
weird issue while committing, it is much saner to fail the transaction.
This will have an impact on any client that decides to commit even if it
can't write a node. Although, it is not clear why a normal client would
want to do that...
Lastly, update destroy_node() to use the correct key for deleting the
node. Rather than recreating it (this will allocate memory and
therefore fail), stash the key in the structure node.
This is XSA-415 / CVE-2022-42310.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit
5d71766bd1a4a3a8b2fe952ca2be80e02fe48f34)