This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

xen: xenbus driver must not accept invalid transaction ids

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: xen-xenbus-driver-must-not-accept-invalid-transaction-ids.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Tue Nov 28 10:49:28 CET 2017

From: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 08:19:46 +0100 Subject: xen: xenbus driver must not accept invalid transaction ids

From: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com

[ Upstream commit 639b08810d6ad74ded2c5f6e233c4fcb9d147168 ]

When accessing Xenstore in a transaction the user is specifying a transaction id which he normally obtained from Xenstore when starting the transaction. Xenstore is validating a transaction id against all known transaction ids of the connection the request came in. As all requests of a domain not being the one where Xenstore lives share one connection, validation of transaction ids of different users of Xenstore in that domain should be done by the kernel of that domain being the multiplexer between the Xenstore users in that domain and Xenstore.

In order to prohibit one Xenstore user "hijacking" a transaction from another user the xenbus driver has to verify a given transaction id against all known transaction ids of the user before forwarding it to Xenstore.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int xenbus_write_transaction(unsi rc = -ENOMEM; goto out; } - } else if (msg_type == XS_TRANSACTION_END) { + } else if (u->u.msg.tx_id != 0) { list_for_each_entry(trans, &u->transactions, list) if (trans->handle.id == u->u.msg.tx_id) break;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jgross@suse.com are

queue-4.9/xen-xenbus-driver-must-not-accept-invalid-transaction-ids.patch