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There is a use-after-free bug in xenstored.

Problem:  Handling requests for one connection can not only zap the
connection itself, due to socket disconnects for example.  It can also
zap *other* connections, due to domain release requests.  Especially it
can zap the connection we have saved a pointer to in the "next"
variable.

The attached patch fixes it by adjusting the reference counting.

diff -r 8417ddc981b4 tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c
--- a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c	Mon Jan 05 11:10:54 2009 +0000
+++ b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c	Thu Feb 26 18:22:31 2009 +0100
@@ -1937,14 +1937,17 @@
 			handle_event();
 
 		next = list_entry(connections.next, typeof(*conn), list);
+		if (&next->list != &connections)
+			talloc_increase_ref_count(next);
 		while (&next->list != &connections) {
 			conn = next;
 
 			next = list_entry(conn->list.next,
 					  typeof(*conn), list);
+			if (&next->list != &connections)
+				talloc_increase_ref_count(next);
 
 			if (conn->domain) {
-				talloc_increase_ref_count(conn);
 				if (domain_can_read(conn))
 					handle_input(conn);
 				if (talloc_free(conn) == 0)
@@ -1957,7 +1960,6 @@
 				if (talloc_free(conn) == 0)
 					continue;
 			} else {
-				talloc_increase_ref_count(conn);
 				if (FD_ISSET(conn->fd, &inset))
 					handle_input(conn);
 				if (talloc_free(conn) == 0)