[Xen-changelog] [qemu-xen-traditional stable-4.5] xenfb: avoid reading twice the same fields from the shared page

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commit 12cbf578452e0ad1200b5e110a0455b91d5e7189
Author:     Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 20 10:37:08 2015 -0500
Commit:     Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri Dec 18 14:57:57 2015 +0000

    xenfb: avoid reading twice the same fields from the shared page
    
    Reading twice the same field could give the guest an attack of
    opportunity. In the case of event->type, gcc could compile the switch
    statement into a jump table, effectively ending up reading the type
    field multiple times.
    
    This is part of XSA-155.
    
    Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 hw/xenfb.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/xenfb.c b/hw/xenfb.c
index 75b2bc2..369d45d 100644
--- a/hw/xenfb.c
+++ b/hw/xenfb.c
@@ -827,18 +827,20 @@ static void xenfb_invalidate(void *opaque)
 
 static void xenfb_handle_events(struct XenFB *xenfb)
 {
-    uint32_t prod, cons;
+    uint32_t prod, cons, out_cons;
     struct xenfb_page *page = xenfb->c.page;
 
     prod = page->out_prod;
-    if (prod == page->out_cons)
+    out_cons = page->out_cons;
+    if (prod == out_cons)
        return;
     xen_rmb();         /* ensure we see ring contents up to prod */
-    for (cons = page->out_cons; cons != prod; cons++) {
+    for (cons = out_cons; cons != prod; cons++) {
        union xenfb_out_event *event = &XENFB_OUT_RING_REF(page, cons);
+        uint8_t type = event->type;
        int x, y, w, h;
 
-       switch (event->type) {
+       switch (type) {
        case XENFB_TYPE_UPDATE:
            if (xenfb->up_count == UP_QUEUE)
                xenfb->up_fullscreen = 1;
--
generated by git-patchbot for /home/xen/git/qemu-xen-traditional.git#stable-4.5

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