On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:31:57 -0400 Andres Beltran <lkmlab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, VMbus drivers use pointers into guest memory as request IDs > for interactions with Hyper-V. To be more robust in the face of errors > or malicious behavior from a compromised Hyper-V, avoid exposing > guest memory addresses to Hyper-V. Also avoid Hyper-V giving back a > bad request ID that is then treated as the address of a guest data > structure with no validation. Instead, encapsulate these memory > addresses and provide small integers as request IDs. > > The first patch creates the definitions for the data structure, provides > helper methods to generate new IDs and retrieve data, and > allocates/frees the memory needed for vmbus_requestor. > > The second and third patches make use of vmbus_requestor to send request > IDs to Hyper-V in storvsc and netvsc respectively. > > Thanks. > Andres Beltran > > Tested-by: Andrea Parri <parri.and...@gmail.com> > > Cc: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <j...@linux.ibm.com> > Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com> > Cc: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> > > Andres Beltran (3): > Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus > hardening > scsi: storvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for > VMBus hardening > hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus > hardening > > drivers/hv/channel.c | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h | 13 +++ > drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 79 ++++++++++++--- > drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c | 1 + > drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 85 ++++++++++++++--- > include/linux/hyperv.h | 22 +++++ > 6 files changed, 329 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) > How does this interact with use of the vmbus in usermode by DPDK through hv_uio_generic? Will it still work?
