xen-scsiback: safely copy requests

The copy of the ring request was lacking a following barrier(),
potentially allowing the compiler to optimize the copy away.

Use RING_COPY_REQUEST() to ensure the request is copied to local
memory.

This is part of XSA155.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c b/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
index 9eeefd7..2af9aa8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ static int scsiback_do_cmd_fn(struct vscsibk_info *info)
                if (!pending_req)
                        return 1;
 
-               ring_req = *RING_GET_REQUEST(ring, rc);
+               RING_COPY_REQUEST(ring, rc, &ring_req);
                ring->req_cons = ++rc;
 
                err = prepare_pending_reqs(info, &ring_req, pending_req);