console: avoid wrapping of console pointers We particularly want/need to avoid accessing data outside (ahead of) the ring buffer. Also latch both pointers into local variable to avoid different steps of the calculation being done with different values. Reported-by: Quan Luo Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen/drivers/char/console.c +++ b/xen/drivers/char/console.c @@ -254,20 +254,23 @@ static void conring_puts(const char *str long read_console_ring(struct xen_sysctl_readconsole *op) { XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM(char) str; - uint32_t idx, len, max, sofar, c; + uint32_t idx, len, max, sofar, c, p; str = guest_handle_cast(op->buffer, char), max = op->count; sofar = 0; - c = conringc; - if ( op->incremental && ((int32_t)(op->index - c) > 0) ) + c = read_atomic(&conringc); + p = read_atomic(&conringp); + if ( op->incremental && + (c <= p ? c < op->index && op->index <= p + : c < op->index || op->index <= p) ) c = op->index; - while ( (c != conringp) && (sofar < max) ) + while ( (c != p) && (sofar < max) ) { idx = CONRING_IDX_MASK(c); - len = conringp - c; + len = p - c; if ( (idx + len) > conring_size ) len = conring_size - idx; if ( (sofar + len) > max ) @@ -281,10 +284,7 @@ long read_console_ring(struct xen_sysctl if ( op->clear ) { spin_lock_irq(&console_lock); - if ( (uint32_t)(conringp - c) > conring_size ) - conringc = conringp - conring_size; - else - conringc = c; + conringc = p - c > conring_size ? p - conring_size : c; spin_unlock_irq(&console_lock); }