On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:41:44AM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> The xenstore 'ring-page-order' is used globally for each blkback queue and
> therefore should be read from xenstore only once. However, it is obtained
> in read_per_ring_refs() which might be called multiple times during the
> initialization of each blkback queue.
> 
> If the blkfront is malicious and the 'ring-page-order' is set in different
> value by blkfront every time before blkback reads it, this may end up at
> the "WARN_ON(i != (XEN_BLKIF_REQS_PER_PAGE * blkif->nr_ring_pages));" in
> xen_blkif_disconnect() when frontend is destroyed.
> 
> This patch reworks connect_ring() to read xenstore 'ring-page-order' only
> once.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zh...@oracle.com>

LGTM:

Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>

Thanks!

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