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 @@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ void hvm_migrate_pirqs(struct vcpu *v) void hvm_do_resume(struct vcpu *v) { ioreq_t *p; + unsigned int state; pt_restore_timer(v); @@ -349,9 +350,10 @@ void hvm_do_resume(struct vcpu *v) /* NB. Optimised for common case (p->state == STATE_IOREQ_NONE). */ p = get_ioreq(v); - 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 */ hvm_io_assist(); @@ -359,11 +361,10 @@ void hvm_do_resume(struct vcpu *v) case STATE_IOREQ_READY: /* IOREQ_{READY,INPROCESS} -> IORESP_READY */ case STATE_IOREQ_INPROCESS: wait_on_xen_event_channel(v->arch.hvm_vcpu.xen_port, - (p->state != STATE_IOREQ_READY) && - (p->state != STATE_IOREQ_INPROCESS)); + 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(v->domain); return; /* bail */ }