From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DE9C433B4 for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09B90610A2 for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:24 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 09B90610A2 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=suse.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.128356.240983 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lieul-0005wl-Tr; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:15 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 128356.240983; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:15 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lieul-0005we-Qc; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:15 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 128356; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:14 +0000 Received: from all-amaz-eas1.inumbo.com ([34.197.232.57] helo=us1-amaz-eas2.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lieuk-0005wY-Pm for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:14 +0000 Received: from mx2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.15]) by us1-amaz-eas2.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id a4b5c7b5-a4ae-4395-b74d-9ba8be501bf9; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105D8AF75; Mon, 17 May 2021 15:12:13 +0000 (UTC) X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: a4b5c7b5-a4ae-4395-b74d-9ba8be501bf9 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.com; s=susede1; t=1621264333; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=ACzB0DWbQGMuhP7p+vCM4+g4XN+9TxlE9DnI7LNXZBs=; b=vDfEffzs87TIlyJUBoxJiFeoxiofBZyZFCKTYenvgXrKex0QVkTui63PUD/mFZrrvqzWov +AYG2+nff9AsadGKL2MUFXg09LY7mghXZS9EigOW0wWNu9PYsOIXbDPqKOVJ9fab+FOGoK NAJ/O7l2p8W6IrmSmmMzF+HEbCj8zcE= Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] xen/blkfront: don't trust the backend response data blindly To: Juergen Gross Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=c3=a9?= , Boris Ostrovsky , Stefano Stabellini , Jens Axboe , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20210513100302.22027-1-jgross@suse.com> <20210513100302.22027-5-jgross@suse.com> <315ad8b9-8a98-8d3e-f66c-ab32af2731a8@suse.com> <6095c4b9-a9bb-8a38-fb6c-a5483105b802@suse.com> From: Jan Beulich Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 17:12:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6095c4b9-a9bb-8a38-fb6c-a5483105b802@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 17.05.2021 16:23, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 17.05.21 16:11, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 13.05.2021 12:02, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> @@ -1574,10 +1580,16 @@ static irqreturn_t blkif_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id) >>> spin_lock_irqsave(&rinfo->ring_lock, flags); >>> again: >>> rp = rinfo->ring.sring->rsp_prod; >>> + if (RING_RESPONSE_PROD_OVERFLOW(&rinfo->ring, rp)) { >>> + pr_alert("%s: illegal number of responses %u\n", >>> + info->gd->disk_name, rp - rinfo->ring.rsp_cons); >>> + goto err; >>> + } >>> rmb(); /* Ensure we see queued responses up to 'rp'. */ >> >> I think you want to insert after the barrier. > > Why? The relevant variable which is checked is "rp". The result of the > check is in no way depending on the responses themselves. And any change > of rsp_cons is protected by ring_lock, so there is no possibility of > reading an old value here. But this is a standard double read situation: You might check a value and then (via a separate read) use a different one past the barrier. Jan