Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <> | Subject | [PATCH 2/3] xen/ring: Add a new macro to detect whether there is an overflow in requests and response. | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:32:31 -0500 |
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We want to be able to exit if the difference between the request produced (what the frontend tells us) and the requests consumed (what we have so far processed) is greater than the ring size.
If so, we should terminate the loop as the request produced is not trusted and it means it is bogus.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> --- include/xen/interface/io/ring.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/ring.h b/include/xen/interface/io/ring.h index 75271b9..1114dde 100644 --- a/include/xen/interface/io/ring.h +++ b/include/xen/interface/io/ring.h @@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ struct __name##_back_ring { \ #define RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW(_r, _cons) \ (((_cons) - (_r)->rsp_prod_pvt) >= RING_SIZE(_r)) +/* Loop termination condition: Is the difference between request produced + * and request consumed greater than the ring size. If so, terminate the + * loop. */ +#define RING_REQUEST_PROD_OVERFLOW(_r, _cons, _prod) \ + (((_prod) - (_prod)) > RING_SIZE(_r)) + #define RING_PUSH_REQUESTS(_r) do { \ wmb(); /* back sees requests /before/ updated producer index */ \ (_r)->sring->req_prod = (_r)->req_prod_pvt; \ -- 1.8.0.2
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