Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xen-blkfront: implement safe version ofllist_for_each_entry

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Dec 07 2012 - 15:20:13 EST


On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:21:53PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> 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.

Looks like xen-blkfront is the only user of this llist_for_each_entry.

Would it be more prudent to put the macro in the llist.h file?

>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> 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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