4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Roger=20Pau=20Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1f13d75ccb806260079e0679d55d9253e370ec8a upstream.
A compiler may load a switch statement value multiple times, which could
be bad when the value is in memory shared with the frontend.
When converting a non-native request to a native one, ensure that
src->operation is only loaded once by using READ_ONCE().
This is part of XSA155.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
index 45a044a..619bd60 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -399,8 +399,8 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_32_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
struct blkif_x86_32_request *src)
{
int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, j;
- dst->operation = src->operation;
- switch (src->operation) {
+ dst->operation = READ_ONCE(src->operation);
+ switch (dst->operation) {
case BLKIF_OP_READ:
case BLKIF_OP_WRITE:
case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
@@ -447,8 +447,8 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_64_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
struct blkif_x86_64_request *src)
{
int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, j;
- dst->operation = src->operation;
- switch (src->operation) {
+ dst->operation = READ_ONCE(src->operation);
+ switch (dst->operation) {
case BLKIF_OP_READ:
case BLKIF_OP_WRITE:
case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
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1.9.1
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