On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 05:00:42PM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> With the current implementation, the callback in the tail of the list
> can be added twice, because the check done in
> gnttab_request_free_callback is bogus, callback->next can be NULL if
> it is the last callback in the list. If we add the same callback twice
> we end up with an infinite loop, were callback == callback->next.
>
> Replace this check with a proper one that iterates over the list to
> see if the callback has already been added.
Acked-by: Matt Wilson <m...@amazon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com>
> ---
> This patch should be backported to stable trees
> ---
> drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 13 +++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> index 04c1b2d..d5418c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> @@ -729,9 +729,18 @@ void gnttab_request_free_callback(struct
> gnttab_free_callback *callback,
> void (*fn)(void *), void *arg, u16 count)
> {
> unsigned long flags;
> + struct gnttab_free_callback *cb;
> +
> spin_lock_irqsave(&gnttab_list_lock, flags);
> - if (callback->next)
> - goto out;
> +
> + /* Check if the callback is already on the list */
> + cb = gnttab_free_callback_list;
> + while (cb) {
> + if (cb == callback)
> + goto out;
> + cb = cb->next;
> + }
> +
> callback->fn = fn;
> callback->arg = arg;
> callback->count = count;
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