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    hwrng: virtio - Fix race on data_avail and actual data · ac52578d
    Herbert Xu authored
    The virtio rng device kicks off a new entropy request whenever the
    data available reaches zero.  When a new request occurs at the end
    of a read operation, that is, when the result of that request is
    only needed by the next reader, then there is a race between the
    writing of the new data and the next reader.
    
    This is because there is no synchronisation whatsoever between the
    writer and the reader.
    
    Fix this by writing data_avail with smp_store_release and reading
    it with smp_load_acquire when we first enter read.  The subsequent
    reads are safe because they're either protected by the first load
    acquire, or by the completion mechanism.
    
    Also remove the redundant zeroing of data_idx in random_recv_done
    (data_idx must already be zero at this point) and data_avail in
    request_entropy (ditto).
    
    Reported-by: syzbot+726dc8c62c3536431ceb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
    Fixes: f7f510ec ("virtio: An entropy device, as suggested by hpa.")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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