tools/ocaml/xc: Don't reference Abstract_Tag objects with the GC lock released

The intf->{addr,len} references in the xc_map_foreign_range() call are unsafe.
From the manual:

  https://ocaml.org/manual/intfc.html#ss:parallel-execution-long-running-c-code

"After caml_release_runtime_system() was called and until
caml_acquire_runtime_system() is called, the C code must not access any OCaml
data, nor call any function of the run-time system, nor call back into OCaml
code."

More than what the manual says, the intf pointer is (potentially) invalidated
by caml_enter_blocking_section() if another thread happens to perform garbage
collection at just the right (wrong) moment.

Rewrite the logic.  There's no need to stash data in the Ocaml object until
the success path at the very end.

Fixes: 8b7ce06a2d34 ("ocaml: Add XC bindings.")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@citrix.com>

diff --git a/tools/ocaml/libs/xc/xenctrl_stubs.c b/tools/ocaml/libs/xc/xenctrl_stubs.c
index 291663bb278adb55071b8b27173408765f65fff6..e5277f6f19a2c1b9daff492289eca1b7d3a0d5d4 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/ocaml/libs/xc/xenctrl_stubs.c
+++ b/tools/ocaml/libs/xc/xenctrl_stubs.c
@@ -1028,26 +1028,25 @@ CAMLprim value stub_map_foreign_range(value xch, value dom,
        CAMLparam4(xch, dom, size, mfn);
        CAMLlocal1(result);
        struct mmap_interface *intf;
-       uint32_t c_dom;
-       unsigned long c_mfn;
+       unsigned long c_mfn = Nativeint_val(mfn);
+       int len = Int_val(size);
+       void *ptr;
 
        BUILD_BUG_ON((sizeof(struct mmap_interface) % sizeof(value)) != 0);
        result = caml_alloc(Wsize_bsize(sizeof(struct mmap_interface)),
                            Abstract_tag);
 
-       intf = (struct mmap_interface *) result;
-
-       intf->len = Int_val(size);
-
-       c_dom = _D(dom);
-       c_mfn = Nativeint_val(mfn);
        caml_enter_blocking_section();
-       intf->addr = xc_map_foreign_range(_H(xch), c_dom,
-                                         intf->len, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
-                                         c_mfn);
+       ptr = xc_map_foreign_range(_H(xch), _D(dom), len,
+                                  PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, c_mfn);
        caml_leave_blocking_section();
-       if (!intf->addr)
+
+       if (!ptr)
                caml_failwith("xc_map_foreign_range error");
+
+       intf = Data_abstract_val(result);
+       *intf = (struct mmap_interface){ ptr, len };
+
        CAMLreturn(result);
 }