netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] xen: harden netfront against malicious backends

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Date:   Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:00:13 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
        sstabellini@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] xen: harden netfront against malicious backends

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (refs/heads/master):

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:28:05 +0200 you wrote:
> Xen backends of para-virtualized devices can live in dom0 kernel, dom0
> user land, or in a driver domain. This means that a backend might
> reside in a less trusted environment than the Xen core components, so
> a backend should not be able to do harm to a Xen guest (it can still
> mess up I/O data, but it shouldn't be able to e.g. crash a guest by
> other means or cause a privilege escalation in the guest).
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v2,1/4] xen/netfront: read response from backend only once
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/8446066bf8c1
  - [v2,2/4] xen/netfront: don't read data from request on the ring page
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/162081ec33c2
  - [v2,3/4] xen/netfront: disentangle tx_skb_freelist
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/21631d2d741a
  - [v2,4/4] xen/netfront: don't trust the backend response data blindly
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/a884daa61a7d

You are awesome, thank you!
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