xen/netfront: harden netfront against event channel storms
commit b27d4795 upstream. The Xen netfront driver is still vulnerable for an attack via excessive number of events sent by the backend. Fix that by using lateeoi event channels. For being able to detect the case of no rx responses being added while the carrier is down a new lock is needed in order to update and test rsp_cons and the number of seen unconsumed responses atomically. This is part of XSA-391 Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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