xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: prevent crash in xenwatch_thread() when stale watch events arrive
During repeated kexec boots xenwatch_thread() can crash because xenbus_watch->callback is cleared by xenbus_watch_path() if a node/token combo for a new watch happens to match an already registered watch from an old kernel. In this case xs_watch returns -EEXISTS, then register_xenbus_watch() does not remove the to-be-registered watch from the list of active watches but returns the -EEXISTS to the caller anyway. Because the watch is still active in xenstored it will cause an event which will arrive in the new kernel. process_msg() will find the encapsulated struct xenbus_watch in its list of registered watches and puts the "empty" watch handle in the queue for xenwatch_thread(). xenwatch_thread() then calls ->callback which was cleared earlier by xenbus_watch_path(). To prevent that crash in a guest running on an old xen toolstack remove the special -EEXIST handling. v2: - remove the EEXIST handing in register_xenbus_watch() instead of checking for ->callback in process_msg() Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
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@ -638,8 +638,7 @@ int register_xenbus_watch(struct xenbus_watch *watch)
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err = xs_watch(watch->node, token);
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/* Ignore errors due to multiple registration. */
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if ((err != 0) && (err != -EEXIST)) {
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if (err) {
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spin_lock(&watches_lock);
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list_del(&watch->list);
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spin_unlock(&watches_lock);
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