linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] Harden a few virtio bits

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2023 06:55:39 -0500
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     jasowang@...hat.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, elena.reshetova@...el.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] Harden a few virtio bits

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:57:15PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are 6 patches that harden console, net and 9p drivers against
> various malicious host input as well as close a bounds check bypass
> in the split virtio ring.

Hardening against buggy devices is one thing,
Hardening against malicious devices is another.
Which is this?
If really malicious, aren't there any spectre considerations here?
I am for example surprised not to find anything addressing
spectre v1 nor any uses of array_index_nospec here.


> Changes since previous version:
>  * Added Christian's R-B to 3/6
>  * Added a speculation fix per Michael's comment on the cover letter
>  * CC'ing lkml
> 
> Alexander Shishkin (3):
>   virtio console: Harden control message handling
>   virtio_net: Guard against buffer length overflow in
>     xdp_linearize_page()
>   virtio_ring: Prevent bounds check bypass on descriptor index
> 
> Andi Kleen (3):
>   virtio console: Harden multiport against invalid host input
>   virtio console: Harden port adding
>   virtio 9p: Fix an overflow
> 
>  drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c      |  4 +++-
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c  |  3 +++
>  net/9p/trans_virtio.c         |  2 +-
>  4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.0