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gentoo-overlay/app-emulation/xen/files/xen-4-CVE-2013-1920-XSA-47....

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defer event channel bucket pointer store until after XSM checks
Otherwise a dangling pointer can be left, which would cause subsequent
memory corruption as soon as the space got re-allocated for some other
purpose.
This is CVE-2013-1920 / XSA-47.
Reported-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
--- a/xen/common/event_channel.c
+++ b/xen/common/event_channel.c
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ static int get_free_port(struct domain *
chn = xzalloc_array(struct evtchn, EVTCHNS_PER_BUCKET);
if ( unlikely(chn == NULL) )
return -ENOMEM;
- bucket_from_port(d, port) = chn;
for ( i = 0; i < EVTCHNS_PER_BUCKET; i++ )
{
@@ -153,6 +152,8 @@ static int get_free_port(struct domain *
}
}
+ bucket_from_port(d, port) = chn;
+
return port;
}