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xen-scsiback: safely copy requests
authorDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 18:02:32 +0000 (18:02 +0000)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:46:10 +0000 (10:46 -0500)
commitd5fa373d65722f9b4f0b663a5410507580772326
treee9a98607cd671fcde954512a4eb158d4d30038d1
parent8f17c3f9d02ce0b5de2a167821fd4b80d568dadb
xen-scsiback: safely copy requests

The copy of the ring request was lacking a following barrier(),
potentially allowing the compiler to optimize the copy away.

Use RING_COPY_REQUEST() to ensure the request is copied to local
memory.

This is part of XSA155.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
(cherry picked from commit be69746ec12f35b484707da505c6c76ff06f97dc)
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c