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[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 235/305] xen-blkback: only read request operation from shared ring once

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  [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 235/305] xen-blkback: only read request operation from shared ring once Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> - 2016-01-16 01:30 +0100

#1310649 — [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 235/305] xen-blkback: only read request operation from shared ring once

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@citrix.com>

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@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 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:
-- 
1.9.1

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