linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] vfio/type1: Limit DMA mappings per container

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Date:   Wed, 3 Apr 2019 14:05:58 +0800
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        eric.auger@...hat.com, cohuck@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfio/type1: Limit DMA mappings per container

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Memory backed DMA mappings are accounted against a user's locked
> memory limit, including multiple mappings of the same memory.  This
> accounting bounds the number of such mappings that a user can create.
> However, DMA mappings that are not backed by memory, such as DMA
> mappings of device MMIO via mmaps, do not make use of page pinning
> and therefore do not count against the user's locked memory limit.
> These mappings still consume memory, but the memory is not well
> associated to the process for the purpose of oom killing a task.
> 
> To add bounding on this use case, we introduce a limit to the total
> number of concurrent DMA mappings that a user is allowed to create.
> This limit is exposed as a tunable module option where the default
> value of 64K is expected to be well in excess of any reasonable use
> case (a large virtual machine configuration would typically only make
> use of tens of concurrent mappings).
> 
> This fixes CVE-2019-3882.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu