From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:44:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: xen/blkif: Avoid double access to src->nr_segments
X-Git-Url: http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca37f03bc0df4d4a2c5aef4c3c445a183e6bd11b;p=qemu-xen.git

xen/blkif: Avoid double access to src->nr_segments

src is stored in shared memory and src->nr_segments is dereferenced
twice at the end of the function.  If a compiler decides to compile this
into two separate memory accesses then the size limitation could be
bypassed.

Fix it by removing the double access to src->nr_segments.

This is part of XSA-155.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
---

diff --git a/hw/xen_blkif.h b/hw/xen_blkif.h
index c0f4136228..24188f40b2 100644
--- a/hw/xen_blkif.h
+++ b/hw/xen_blkif.h
@@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_32_req(blkif_request_t *dst, blkif_x86_32_reque
 	dst->handle = src->handle;
 	dst->id = src->id;
 	dst->sector_number = src->sector_number;
-	if (n > src->nr_segments)
-		n = src->nr_segments;
+	/* prevent the compiler from optimizing the code and using src->nr_segments instead */
+	barrier();
+	if (n > dst->nr_segments)
+		n = dst->nr_segments;
 	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
 		dst->seg[i] = src->seg[i];
 }
@@ -94,8 +96,10 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_64_req(blkif_request_t *dst, blkif_x86_64_reque
 	dst->handle = src->handle;
 	dst->id = src->id;
 	dst->sector_number = src->sector_number;
-	if (n > src->nr_segments)
-		n = src->nr_segments;
+	/* prevent the compiler from optimizing the code and using src->nr_segments instead */
+	barrier();
+	if (n > dst->nr_segments)
+		n = dst->nr_segments;
 	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
 		dst->seg[i] = src->seg[i];
 }