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authorSeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>2020-12-14 10:08:40 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-12-29 13:42:45 +0100
commit3c71d2f637c896a59520cadfae9051c2454986ea (patch)
treefd0ec9df667d6c24e35c9f825b3ee40a7cdc6c5b
parentdf3367c1cb5e1a6d8a527d651f2163756c81c116 (diff)
xenbus/xenbus_backend: Disallow pending watch messages
commit 9996bd494794a2fe393e97e7a982388c6249aa76 upstream. 'xenbus_backend' watches 'state' of devices, which is writable by guests. Hence, if guests intensively updates it, dom0 will have lots of pending events that exhausting memory of dom0. In other words, guests can trigger dom0 memory pressure. This is known as XSA-349. However, the watch callback of it, 'frontend_changed()', reads only 'state', so doesn't need to have the pending events. To avoid the problem, this commit disallows pending watch messages for 'xenbus_backend' using the 'will_handle()' watch callback. This is part of XSA-349 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> Reported-by: Michael Kurth <mku@amazon.de> Reported-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
index 04f7f85a5edf..597c0b038454 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
@@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ static int xenbus_probe_backend(struct xen_bus_type *bus, const char *type,
return err;
}
+static bool frontend_will_handle(struct xenbus_watch *watch,
+ const char **vec, unsigned int len)
+{
+ return watch->nr_pending == 0;
+}
+
static void frontend_changed(struct xenbus_watch *watch,
const char **vec, unsigned int len)
{
@@ -192,6 +198,7 @@ static struct xen_bus_type xenbus_backend = {
.levels = 3, /* backend/type/<frontend>/<id> */
.get_bus_id = backend_bus_id,
.probe = xenbus_probe_backend,
+ .otherend_will_handle = frontend_will_handle,
.otherend_changed = frontend_changed,
.bus = {
.name = "xen-backend",