On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:41:44AM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote: > The xenstore 'ring-page-order' is used globally for each blkback queue and > therefore should be read from xenstore only once. However, it is obtained > in read_per_ring_refs() which might be called multiple times during the > initialization of each blkback queue. > > If the blkfront is malicious and the 'ring-page-order' is set in different > value by blkfront every time before blkback reads it, this may end up at > the "WARN_ON(i != (XEN_BLKIF_REQS_PER_PAGE * blkif->nr_ring_pages));" in > xen_blkif_disconnect() when frontend is destroyed. > > This patch reworks connect_ring() to read xenstore 'ring-page-order' only > once. > > Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> LGTM: Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks!
