Patch "xen-blkback: don't leak stack data via response ring" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xen-blkback: don't leak stack data via response ring

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xen-blkback-don-t-leak-stack-data-via-response-ring.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 11:12:05 CET 2017
From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:28:27 -0400
Subject: xen-blkback: don't leak stack data via response ring

From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>


commit 089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 upstream.

Rather than constructing a local structure instance on the stack, fill
the fields directly on the shared ring, just like other backends do.
Build on the fact that all response structure flavors are actually
identical (the old code did make this assumption too).

This is XSA-216.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |   23 ++++++++++++-----------
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  |   25 +++++--------------------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -1407,33 +1407,34 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct x
 static void make_response(struct xen_blkif *blkif, u64 id,
 			  unsigned short op, int st)
 {
-	struct blkif_response  resp;
+	struct blkif_response *resp;
 	unsigned long     flags;
 	union blkif_back_rings *blk_rings = &blkif->blk_rings;
 	int notify;
 
-	resp.id        = id;
-	resp.operation = op;
-	resp.status    = st;
-
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&blkif->blk_ring_lock, flags);
 	/* Place on the response ring for the relevant domain. */
 	switch (blkif->blk_protocol) {
 	case BLKIF_PROTOCOL_NATIVE:
-		memcpy(RING_GET_RESPONSE(&blk_rings->native, blk_rings->native.rsp_prod_pvt),
-		       &resp, sizeof(resp));
+		resp = RING_GET_RESPONSE(&blk_rings->native,
+					 blk_rings->native.rsp_prod_pvt);
 		break;
 	case BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_32:
-		memcpy(RING_GET_RESPONSE(&blk_rings->x86_32, blk_rings->x86_32.rsp_prod_pvt),
-		       &resp, sizeof(resp));
+		resp = RING_GET_RESPONSE(&blk_rings->x86_32,
+					 blk_rings->x86_32.rsp_prod_pvt);
 		break;
 	case BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_64:
-		memcpy(RING_GET_RESPONSE(&blk_rings->x86_64, blk_rings->x86_64.rsp_prod_pvt),
-		       &resp, sizeof(resp));
+		resp = RING_GET_RESPONSE(&blk_rings->x86_64,
+					 blk_rings->x86_64.rsp_prod_pvt);
 		break;
 	default:
 		BUG();
 	}
+
+	resp->id        = id;
+	resp->operation = op;
+	resp->status    = st;
+
 	blk_rings->common.rsp_prod_pvt++;
 	RING_PUSH_RESPONSES_AND_CHECK_NOTIFY(&blk_rings->common, notify);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkif->blk_ring_lock, flags);
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -74,9 +74,8 @@ extern unsigned int xen_blkif_max_ring_o
 struct blkif_common_request {
 	char dummy;
 };
-struct blkif_common_response {
-	char dummy;
-};
+
+/* i386 protocol version */
 
 struct blkif_x86_32_request_rw {
 	uint8_t        nr_segments;  /* number of segments                   */
@@ -128,14 +127,6 @@ struct blkif_x86_32_request {
 	} u;
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
-/* i386 protocol version */
-#pragma pack(push, 4)
-struct blkif_x86_32_response {
-	uint64_t        id;              /* copied from request */
-	uint8_t         operation;       /* copied from request */
-	int16_t         status;          /* BLKIF_RSP_???       */
-};
-#pragma pack(pop)
 /* x86_64 protocol version */
 
 struct blkif_x86_64_request_rw {
@@ -192,18 +183,12 @@ struct blkif_x86_64_request {
 	} u;
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
-struct blkif_x86_64_response {
-	uint64_t       __attribute__((__aligned__(8))) id;
-	uint8_t         operation;       /* copied from request */
-	int16_t         status;          /* BLKIF_RSP_???       */
-};
-
 DEFINE_RING_TYPES(blkif_common, struct blkif_common_request,
-		  struct blkif_common_response);
+		  struct blkif_response);
 DEFINE_RING_TYPES(blkif_x86_32, struct blkif_x86_32_request,
-		  struct blkif_x86_32_response);
+		  struct blkif_response __packed);
 DEFINE_RING_TYPES(blkif_x86_64, struct blkif_x86_64_request,
-		  struct blkif_x86_64_response);
+		  struct blkif_response);
 
 union blkif_back_rings {
 	struct blkif_back_ring        native;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jbeulich@suse.com are

queue-4.4/xen-blkback-don-t-leak-stack-data-via-response-ring.patch