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    xen/netback: shutdown the ring if it contains garbage. · 48856286
    Ian Campbell authored
    A buggy or malicious frontend should not be able to confuse netback.
    If we spot anything which is not as it should be then shutdown the
    device and don't try to continue with the ring in a potentially
    hostile state. Well behaved and non-hostile frontends will not be
    penalised.
    
    As well as making the existing checks for such errors fatal also add a
    new check that ensures that there isn't an insane number of requests
    on the ring (i.e. more than would fit in the ring). If the ring
    contains garbage then previously is was possible to loop over this
    insane number, getting an error each time and therefore not generating
    any more pending requests and therefore not exiting the loop in
    xen_netbk_tx_build_gops for an externded period.
    
    Also turn various netdev_dbg calls which no precipitate a fatal error
    into netdev_err, they are rate limited because the device is shutdown
    afterwards.
    
    This fixes at least one known DoS/softlockup of the backend domain.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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