netdev - [PATCH V3 07/10] vhost: don't do synchronize_rcu() in vhost_uninit_vq

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:   Wed,  7 Aug 2019 02:54:46 -0400
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     mst@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, jgg@...pe.ca,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3 07/10] vhost: don't do synchronize_rcu() in vhost_uninit_vq_maps()

There's no need for RCU synchronization in vhost_uninit_vq_maps()
since we've already serialized with readers (memory accessors). This
also avoid the possible userspace DOS through ioctl() because of the
possible high latency caused by synchronize_rcu().

Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
Fixes: 7f466032dc9e ("vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index c12cdadb0855..cfc11f9ed9c9 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -333,7 +333,9 @@ static void vhost_uninit_vq_maps(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&vq->mmu_lock);
 
-	synchronize_rcu();
+	/* No need for synchronize_rcu() or kfree_rcu() since we are
+	 * serialized with memory accessors (e.g vq mutex held).
+	 */
 
 	for (i = 0; i < VHOST_NUM_ADDRS; i++)
 		if (map[i])
-- 
2.18.1