netdev - Re: [PATCH v9 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus hardening

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Message-ID: <20201117105437.xbyjrs4m7garb2lj@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2>
Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:54:37 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     "Andrea Parri (Microsoft)" <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "K . Y . Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@...il.com>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        Saruhan Karademir <skarade@...rosoft.com>,
        Juan Vazquez <juvazq@...rosoft.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: vmbus_requestor data
 structure for VMBus hardening

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:03:59AM +0100, Andrea Parri (Microsoft) 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.
> 
> The series is based on 5.10-rc3.  Changelog in the actual patches.

Applied to hyperv-next. Thanks.

I also corrected the email address in my reviewed-by tags while
committing -- should've use my @kernel.org address, not @xen.org.

Wei.