xen-blkback: read from indirect descriptors only once
commit 18779149 upstream. Since indirect descriptors are in memory shared with the frontend, the frontend could alter the first_sect and last_sect values after they have been validated but before they are recorded in the request. This may result in I/O requests that overflow the foreign page, possibly overwriting local pages when the I/O request is executed. When parsing indirect descriptors, only read first_sect and last_sect 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> [ luis: backported to 3.16: - Use ACCESS_ONCE instead of READ_ONCE - Use PAGE_SIZE instead of XEN_PAGE_SIZE ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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