ACK: [PATCH] xen-blkback: don't leak persistent grants from xen_blkbk_map()

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Thu Apr 8 09:26:21 UTC 2021


On 02.04.21 16:03, Tim Gardner wrote:
> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse.com>
> 
> CVE-2021-28688
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921902
> 
> The fix for XSA-365 zapped too many of the ->persistent_gnt[] entries.
> Ones successfully obtained should not be overwritten, but instead left
> for xen_blkbk_unmap_prepare() to pick up and put.
> 
> This is XSA-371.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse.com>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl at xen.org>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
> (cherry picked from commit a846738f8c3788d846ed1f587270d2f2e3d32432)
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>

Thanks

> ---
>   drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> index a703f365b5b19..ec292aa62046a 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ static int xen_blkbk_map(struct xen_blkif_ring *ring,
>   out:
>   	for (i = last_map; i < num; i++) {
>   		/* Don't zap current batch's valid persistent grants. */
> -		if(i >= last_map + segs_to_map)
> +		if(i >= map_until)
>   			pages[i]->persistent_gnt = NULL;
>   		pages[i]->handle = BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE;
>   	}
> 




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