On 2018年04月28日 09:51, Kevin Easton wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 09:07:56PM -0400, Kevin Easton wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:05:45PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:45:02AM -0400, Kevin Easton wrote:
The struct vhost_msg within struct vhost_msg_node is copied to userspace,
so it should be allocated with kzalloc() to ensure all structure padding
is zeroed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Easton <ke...@guarana.org>
Reported-by: syzbot+87cfa083e727a2247...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Does it help if a patch naming the padding is applied,
and then we init just the relevant field?
Just curious.
No, I don't believe that is sufficient to fix the problem.
Scratch that, somehow I missed the "..and then we init just the
relevant field" part, sorry.
There's still the padding after the vhost_iotlb_msg to consider. It's
named in the union but I don't think that's guaranteed to be initialised
when the iotlb member of the union is used to initialise things.
I didn't name the padding in my original patch because I wasn't sure
if the padding actually exists on 32 bit architectures?
This might still be a conce
Yes.
print &((struct vhost_msg *)0)->iotlb
$3 = (struct vhost_iotlb_msg *) 0x4
At the end of the day, zeroing 96 bytes (the full size of vhost_msg_node)
is pretty quick.
- Kevin
Right, and even if it may be used heavily in the data-path, zeroing is
not the main delay in that path.
Thanks
