Commit 8ca8b729 authored by Juergen Gross's avatar Juergen Gross Committed by Yang Yingliang
Browse files

xen/blkfront: harden blkfront against event channel storms



stable inclusion
from linux-4.19.222
commit 269d7124bcfad2558d2329d0fe603ca20b20d3f4
CVE: CVE-2021-28711

--------------------------------

commit 0fd08a34 upstream.

The Xen blkfront driver is still vulnerable for an attack via excessive
number of events sent by the backend. Fix that by using lateeoi event
channels.

This is part of XSA-391

Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarXiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
parent b9493a87
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please to comment