x86/HVM: avoid reading ioreq state more than once Otherwise, especially when the compiler chooses to translate the switch() to a jump table, unpredictable behavior (and in the jump table case arbitrary code execution) can result. This is XSA-166. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Ian Campbell --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c @@ -400,23 +400,23 @@ bool_t hvm_io_pending(struct vcpu *v) static bool_t hvm_wait_for_io(struct hvm_ioreq_vcpu *sv, ioreq_t *p) { + unsigned int state; + /* NB. Optimised for common case (p->state == STATE_IOREQ_NONE). */ - while ( p->state != STATE_IOREQ_NONE ) + while ( (state = p->state) != STATE_IOREQ_NONE ) { - switch ( p->state ) + rmb(); + switch ( state ) { case STATE_IORESP_READY: /* IORESP_READY -> NONE */ - rmb(); /* see IORESP_READY /then/ read contents of ioreq */ hvm_io_assist(p); break; case STATE_IOREQ_READY: /* IOREQ_{READY,INPROCESS} -> IORESP_READY */ case STATE_IOREQ_INPROCESS: - wait_on_xen_event_channel(sv->ioreq_evtchn, - (p->state != STATE_IOREQ_READY) && - (p->state != STATE_IOREQ_INPROCESS)); + wait_on_xen_event_channel(sv->ioreq_evtchn, p->state != state); break; default: - gdprintk(XENLOG_ERR, "Weird HVM iorequest state %d.\n", p->state); + gdprintk(XENLOG_ERR, "Weird HVM iorequest state %u\n", state); domain_crash(sv->vcpu->domain); return 0; /* bail */ }