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<title>xen: Add RING_COPY_REQUEST()</title>
<updated>2015-12-18T15:00:17+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
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<published>2015-10-30T14:58:08+00:00</published>
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Using RING_GET_REQUEST() on a shared ring is easy to use incorrectly
(i.e., by not considering that the other end may alter the data in the
shared ring while it is being inspected).  Safe usage of a request
generally requires taking a local copy.

Provide a RING_COPY_REQUEST() macro to use instead of
RING_GET_REQUEST() and an open-coded memcpy().  This takes care of
ensuring that the copy is done correctly regardless of any possible
compiler optimizations.

Use a volatile source to prevent the compiler from reordering or
omitting the copy.

This is part of XSA155.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Using RING_GET_REQUEST() on a shared ring is easy to use incorrectly
(i.e., by not considering that the other end may alter the data in the
shared ring while it is being inspected).  Safe usage of a request
generally requires taking a local copy.

Provide a RING_COPY_REQUEST() macro to use instead of
RING_GET_REQUEST() and an open-coded memcpy().  This takes care of
ensuring that the copy is done correctly regardless of any possible
compiler optimizations.

Use a volatile source to prevent the compiler from reordering or
omitting the copy.

This is part of XSA155.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>xen/io/ring.h: new macro to detect whether there are too many requests on the ring</title>
<updated>2013-06-17T19:17:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>jbeulich@suse.com</email>
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<published>2013-06-17T19:16:33+00:00</published>
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Backends may need to protect themselves against an insane number of
produced requests stored by a frontend, in case they iterate over
requests until reaching the req_prod value. There can't be more
requests on the ring than the difference between produced requests
and produced (but possibly not yet published) responses.

This is a more strict alternative to a patch previously posted by
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Backends may need to protect themselves against an insane number of
produced requests stored by a frontend, in case they iterate over
requests until reaching the req_prod value. There can't be more
requests on the ring than the difference between produced requests
and produced (but possibly not yet published) responses.

This is a more strict alternative to a patch previously posted by
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>xen: Provide a variant of __RING_SIZE() that is an integer constant expression</title>
<updated>2010-12-15T20:34:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy@goop.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-08T20:39:12+00:00</published>
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Without this, gcc 4.5 won't compile xen-netfront and xen-blkfront, where
this is being used to specify array sizes.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Stable Kernel &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Without this, gcc 4.5 won't compile xen-netfront and xen-blkfront, where
this is being used to specify array sizes.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Stable Kernel &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>xen: Add Xen interface header files</title>
<updated>2007-07-18T15:47:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy@xensource.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-18T01:37:04+00:00</published>
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Add Xen interface header files. These are taken fairly directly from
the Xen tree, but somewhat rearranged to suit the kernel's conventions.

Define macros and inline functions for doing hypercalls into the
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt &lt;ian.pratt@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach &lt;Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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Add Xen interface header files. These are taken fairly directly from
the Xen tree, but somewhat rearranged to suit the kernel's conventions.

Define macros and inline functions for doing hypercalls into the
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt &lt;ian.pratt@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach &lt;Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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