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 Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan --- 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; }