libxl: Do not trust backend for nic in list

libxl_device_nic_list should use the /libxl path to search for
devices, and for obtaining the device information.

The "type" parameter was always "vif".  Abolish it.  (In any case,
paths in /libxl/device are named after the frontend type which is
constant, not the backend type which might in future vary.)

Abolish a redundant store to pnic->backend_domid.  Before this commit,
that store was not needed because libxl_device_nic_init (called by
libxl__device_nic_from_xenstore) would zero it.  Now it overwrites the
correct backend domid with zero; so remove it.

This is part of XSA-178.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl.c b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
index 6234da5daf522e03f093be696b3187c36e126d18..65775039f8fa074277fb5b6869aa7d4f6178071d 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
@@ -3052,20 +3052,19 @@ out:
     return rc;
 }
 
-static int libxl__append_nic_list_of_type(libxl__gc *gc,
+static int libxl__append_nic_list(libxl__gc *gc,
                                            uint32_t domid,
-                                           const char *type,
                                            libxl_device_nic **nics,
                                            int *nnics)
 {
-    char *be_path = NULL;
+    char *libxl_dir_path = NULL;
     char **dir = NULL;
     unsigned int n = 0;
     libxl_device_nic *pnic = NULL, *pnic_end = NULL;
 
-    be_path = libxl__sprintf(gc, "%s/backend/%s/%d",
-                             libxl__xs_get_dompath(gc, 0), type, domid);
-    dir = libxl__xs_directory(gc, XBT_NULL, be_path, &n);
+    libxl_dir_path = GCSPRINTF("%s/device/vif",
+                               libxl__xs_libxl_path(gc, domid));
+    dir = libxl__xs_directory(gc, XBT_NULL, libxl_dir_path, &n);
     if (dir && n) {
         libxl_device_nic *tmp;
         tmp = realloc(*nics, sizeof (libxl_device_nic) * (*nnics + n));
@@ -3077,7 +3076,7 @@ static int libxl__append_nic_list_of_type(libxl__gc *gc,
         pnic_end = *nics + *nnics;
         for (; pnic < pnic_end; pnic++, dir++) {
             const char *p;
-            p = libxl__sprintf(gc, "%s/%s", be_path, *dir);
+            p = libxl__sprintf(gc, "%s/%s", libxl_dir_path, *dir);
             libxl__device_nic_from_xenstore(gc, p, pnic);
             pnic->backend_domid = 0;
         }
@@ -3093,7 +3092,7 @@ libxl_device_nic *libxl_device_nic_list(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, int *num
 
     *num = 0;
 
-    rc = libxl__append_nic_list_of_type(gc, domid, "vif", &nics, num);
+    rc = libxl__append_nic_list(gc, domid, &nics, num);
     if (rc) goto out_err;
 
     GC_FREE;