linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] xen-blkfront: implement safe version of llist_for_each

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Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2012 15:21:53 +0100
From:	Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@...rix.com>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] xen-blkfront: implement safe version of llist_for_each_entry

Implement a safe version of llist_for_each_entry, and use it in
blkif_free. Previously grants where freed while iterating the list,
which lead to dereferences when trying to fetch the next item.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xen.org
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 96e9b00..df21b05 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -143,6 +143,13 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(minor_lock);
 
 #define DEV_NAME	"xvd"	/* name in /dev */
 
+#define llist_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, node, member)		\
+	for ((pos) = llist_entry((node), typeof(*(pos)), member),	\
+	     (n) = (pos)->member.next;					\
+	     &(pos)->member != NULL;					\
+	     (pos) = llist_entry(n, typeof(*(pos)), member),		\
+	     (n) = (&(pos)->member != NULL) ? (pos)->member.next : NULL)
+
 static int get_id_from_freelist(struct blkfront_info *info)
 {
 	unsigned long free = info->shadow_free;
@@ -792,6 +799,7 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
 {
 	struct llist_node *all_gnts;
 	struct grant *persistent_gnt;
+	struct llist_node *n;
 
 	/* Prevent new requests being issued until we fix things up. */
 	spin_lock_irq(&info->io_lock);
@@ -804,7 +812,7 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
 	/* Remove all persistent grants */
 	if (info->persistent_gnts_c) {
 		all_gnts = llist_del_all(&info->persistent_gnts);
-		llist_for_each_entry(persistent_gnt, all_gnts, node) {
+		llist_for_each_entry_safe(persistent_gnt, n, all_gnts, node) {
 			gnttab_end_foreign_access(persistent_gnt->gref, 0, 0UL);
 			__free_page(pfn_to_page(persistent_gnt->pfn));
 			kfree(persistent_gnt);
-- 
1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26)

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