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 Index: xen-4.6.0-testing/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c =================================================================== --- xen-4.6.0-testing.orig/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c +++ xen-4.6.0-testing/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c @@ -448,7 +448,10 @@ static bool_t hvm_wait_for_io(struct hvm { while ( sv->pending ) { - switch ( p->state ) + unsigned int state = p->state; + + rmb(); + switch ( state ) { case STATE_IOREQ_NONE: /* @@ -459,18 +462,15 @@ static bool_t hvm_wait_for_io(struct hvm hvm_io_assist(sv, ~0ul); break; case STATE_IORESP_READY: /* IORESP_READY -> NONE */ - rmb(); /* see IORESP_READY /then/ read contents of ioreq */ p->state = STATE_IOREQ_NONE; hvm_io_assist(sv, p->data); 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); sv->pending = 0; domain_crash(sv->vcpu->domain); return 0; /* bail */