2022-11-29 22:40:12

by Stefano Stabellini

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvc/xen: lock console list traversal

On Tue, 29 Nov 2022, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> The currently lockless access to the xen console list in
> vtermno_to_xencons() is incorrect, as additions and removals from the
> list can happen anytime, and as such the traversal of the list to get
> the private console data for a given termno needs to happen with the
> lock held. Note users that modify the list already do so with the
> lock taken.
>
> While there switch from using list_for_each_entry_safe to
> list_for_each_entry: the current entry cursor won't be removed as
> part of the code in the loop body, so using the _safe variant is
> pointless.
>
> Fixes: 02e19f9c7cac ('hvc_xen: implement multiconsole support')
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau MonnĂ© <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 13 +++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> index d65741983837..117dc48f980e 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> @@ -53,17 +53,22 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xencons_lock);
>
> static struct xencons_info *vtermno_to_xencons(int vtermno)
> {
> - struct xencons_info *entry, *n, *ret = NULL;
> + struct xencons_info *entry, *ret = NULL;
> + unsigned long flags;
>
> - if (list_empty(&xenconsoles))
> - return NULL;
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&xencons_lock, flags);

If xencons_lock requires irqsave then we need to change all the
xencons_lock spinlocks to call irqsave, including the ones in
xen_hvm_console_init if they can happen at runtime.


> + if (list_empty(&xenconsoles)) {
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xencons_lock, flags);
> + return NULL;
> + }
>
> - list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, n, &xenconsoles, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry(entry, &xenconsoles, list) {
> if (entry->vtermno == vtermno) {
> ret = entry;
> break;
> }
> }
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xencons_lock, flags);
>
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 2.37.3
>