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Date:   Fri, 9 Apr 2021 19:19:40 +0200
From:   Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
To:     Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        "wei.liu@...nel.org" <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "jejb@...ux.ibm.com" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "martin.petersen@...cle.com" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH hyperv-next] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Copy packets sent by
 Hyper-V out of the ring buffer

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 03:49:00PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> From: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@...il.com> Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2021 9:15 AM
> > 
> > Pointers to ring-buffer packets sent by Hyper-V are used within the
> > guest VM. Hyper-V can send packets with erroneous values or modify
> > packet fields after they are processed by the guest. To defend
> > against these scenarios, return a copy of the incoming VMBus packet
> > after validating its length and offset fields in hv_pkt_iter_first().
> > In this way, the packet can no longer be modified by the host.
> 
> Andrea -- has anything changed in this version of this patch, except
> the value of NETVSC_MAX_XFER_PAGE_RANGES?  It used to be a
> fixed 375, but now is NVSP_RSC_MAX, which is 562.
> 
> If that's the only change, then
> 
> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>

The only change here is indeed the value of NETVSC_MAX_XFER_PAGE_RANGES,
apologies for the omission of the changelog.

Thanks for the review.

  Andrea

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