xen/blkfront: don't take local copy of a request from the ring page

In order to avoid a malicious backend being able to influence the local
copy of a request build the request locally first and then copy it to
the ring page instead of doing it the other way round as today.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730103854.12681-3-jgross@suse.comSigned-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c

@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ static unsigned long blkif_ring_get_request(struct blkfront_ring_info *rinfo,
 	rinfo->shadow[id].status = REQ_WAITING;
 	rinfo->shadow[id].associated_id = NO_ASSOCIATED_ID;
 
-	(*ring_req)->u.rw.id = id;
+	rinfo->shadow[id].req.u.rw.id = id;
 
 	return id;
 }
@@ -541,11 +541,12 @@ static unsigned long blkif_ring_get_request(struct blkfront_ring_info *rinfo,
 static int blkif_queue_discard_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *rinfo)
 {
 	struct blkfront_info *info = rinfo->dev_info;
-	struct blkif_request *ring_req;
+	struct blkif_request *ring_req, *final_ring_req;
 	unsigned long id;
 
 	/* Fill out a communications ring structure. */
-	id = blkif_ring_get_request(rinfo, req, &ring_req);
+	id = blkif_ring_get_request(rinfo, req, &final_ring_req);
+	ring_req = &rinfo->shadow[id].req;
 
 	ring_req->operation = BLKIF_OP_DISCARD;
 	ring_req->u.discard.nr_sectors = blk_rq_sectors(req);
@@ -556,8 +557,8 @@ static int blkif_queue_discard_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_inf
 	else
 		ring_req->u.discard.flag = 0;
 
-	/* Keep a private copy so we can reissue requests when recovering. */
-	rinfo->shadow[id].req = *ring_req;
+	/* Copy the request to the ring page. */
+	*final_ring_req = *ring_req;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -690,6 +691,7 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
 {
 	struct blkfront_info *info = rinfo->dev_info;
 	struct blkif_request *ring_req, *extra_ring_req = NULL;
+	struct blkif_request *final_ring_req, *final_extra_ring_req = NULL;
 	unsigned long id, extra_id = NO_ASSOCIATED_ID;
 	bool require_extra_req = false;
 	int i;
@@ -734,7 +736,8 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
 	}
 
 	/* Fill out a communications ring structure. */
-	id = blkif_ring_get_request(rinfo, req, &ring_req);
+	id = blkif_ring_get_request(rinfo, req, &final_ring_req);
+	ring_req = &rinfo->shadow[id].req;
 
 	num_sg = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, rinfo->shadow[id].sg);
 	num_grant = 0;
@@ -785,7 +788,9 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
 		ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments = num_grant;
 		if (unlikely(require_extra_req)) {
 			extra_id = blkif_ring_get_request(rinfo, req,
-							  &extra_ring_req);
+							  &final_extra_ring_req);
+			extra_ring_req = &rinfo->shadow[extra_id].req;
+
 			/*
 			 * Only the first request contains the scatter-gather
 			 * list.
@@ -827,10 +832,10 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
 	if (setup.segments)
 		kunmap_atomic(setup.segments);
 
-	/* Keep a private copy so we can reissue requests when recovering. */
-	rinfo->shadow[id].req = *ring_req;
+	/* Copy request(s) to the ring page. */
+	*final_ring_req = *ring_req;
 	if (unlikely(require_extra_req))
-		rinfo->shadow[extra_id].req = *extra_ring_req;
+		*final_extra_ring_req = *extra_ring_req;
 
 	if (new_persistent_gnts)
 		gnttab_free_grant_references(setup.gref_head);