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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>2013-09-05 13:00:14 +0200
committerKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>2013-12-06 14:28:01 -0800
commite8aceb485a8fe05aebdec0c75a0af2b204355de9 (patch)
tree378612cdba276c18b75050a607511d88a04b6c65 /drivers
parenta88826ca998ed6e5ac2016457cca03c84c594218 (diff)
xen/blkback: fix reference counting
commit ea5ec76d76da9279d12027c1828544c5ccbe7932 upstream. If the permission check fails, we drop a reference to the blkif without having taken it in the first place. The bug was introduced in commit 604c499cbbcc3d5fe5fb8d53306aa0fae1990109 (xen/blkback: Check device permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD). Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index bdee5f8fecf7..088f012ff9f4 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -658,6 +658,8 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
unsigned long secure;
struct phys_req preq;
+ xen_blkif_get(blkif);
+
preq.sector_number = req->u.discard.sector_number;
preq.nr_sects = req->u.discard.nr_sectors;
@@ -670,7 +672,6 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
}
blkif->st_ds_req++;
- xen_blkif_get(blkif);
secure = (blkif->vbd.discard_secure &&
(req->u.discard.flag & BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE)) ?
BLKDEV_DISCARD_SECURE : 0;