Merge tag 'xsa396-5.17-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross: "Several Linux PV device frontends are using the grant table interfaces for removing access rights of the backends in ways being subject to race conditions, resulting in potential data leaks, data corruption by malicious backends, and denial of service triggered by malicious backends: - blkfront, netfront, scsifront and the gntalloc driver are testing whether a grant reference is still in use. If this is not the case, they assume that a following removal of the granted access will always succeed, which is not true in case the backend has mapped the granted page between those two operations. As a result the backend can keep access to the memory page of the guest no matter how the page will be used after the frontend I/O has finished. The xenbus driver has a similar problem, as it doesn't check the success of removing the granted access of a shared ring buffer. - blkfront, netfront, scsifront, usbfront, dmabuf, xenbus, 9p, kbdfront, and pvcalls are using a functionality to delay freeing a grant reference until it is no longer in use, but the freeing of the related data page is not synchronized with dropping the granted access. As a result the backend can keep access to the memory page even after it has been freed and then re-used for a different purpose. - netfront will fail a BUG_ON() assertion if it fails to revoke access in the rx path. This will result in a Denial of Service (DoS) situation of the guest which can be triggered by the backend" * tag 'xsa396-5.17-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/netfront: react properly to failing gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref() xen/gnttab: fix gnttab_end_foreign_access() without page specified xen/pvcalls: use alloc/free_pages_exact() xen/9p: use alloc/free_pages_exact() xen/usb: don't use gnttab_end_foreign_access() in xenhcd_gnttab_done() xen: remove gnttab_query_foreign_access() xen/gntalloc: don't use gnttab_query_foreign_access() xen/scsifront: don't use gnttab_query_foreign_access() for mapped status xen/netfront: don't use gnttab_query_foreign_access() for mapped status xen/blkfront: don't use gnttab_query_foreign_access() for mapped status xen/grant-table: add gnttab_try_end_foreign_access() xen/xenbus: don't let xenbus_grant_ring() remove grants in error case
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