[PATCH 8/8] xen/hvc: replace BUG_ON() with negative return value

Juergen Gross jgross at suse.com
Thu May 13 20:35:19 AEST 2021


On 13.05.21 12:25, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:03:02PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Xen frontends shouldn't BUG() in case of illegal data received from
>> their backends. So replace the BUG_ON()s when reading illegal data from
>> the ring page with negative return values.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
>> index 92c9a476defc..30d7ffb1e04c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
>> @@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ static int __write_console(struct xencons_info *xencons,
>>   	cons = intf->out_cons;
>>   	prod = intf->out_prod;
>>   	mb();			/* update queue values before going on */
>> +
>> +	if (WARN_ONCE((prod - cons) > sizeof(intf->out),
>> +		      "Illegal ring page indices"))
>> +		return -EINVAL;
> 
> How nice, you just rebooted on panic-on-warn systems :(
> 
>> +
>>   	BUG_ON((prod - cons) > sizeof(intf->out));
> 
> Why keep this line?

Failed to delete it, sorry.

> 
> Please just fix this up properly, if userspace can trigger this, then
> both the WARN_ON() and BUG_ON() are not correct and need to be correctly
> handled.

It can be triggered by the console backend, but I agree a WARN isn't the
way to go here.


Juergen
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_0xB0DE9DD628BF132F.asc
Type: application/pgp-keys
Size: 3091 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/attachments/20210513/48c68d63/attachment-0001.asc>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_signature
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 495 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/attachments/20210513/48c68d63/attachment-0001.sig>


More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list