On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 01:45:31PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:

It helpful if there is a justification for this.

In this case, no such HW device exist and the only device that can cause
this trouble today is user space VDUSE device that must be validated by the
emulation VDUSE kernel driver.

Otherwise, will can create 1000 commit like this in the virtio level (for
example for each feature for each virtio device).

Yea, it's a lot of work but I don't think it's avoidable.

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And regardless of userspace device, we still need to fix it for other cases.

which cases ? Do you know that there is a buggy HW we need to workaround ?

No, there isn't now. But this could be a potential attack surface if
the host doesn't trust the device.

If the host doesn't trust a device, why it continues using it ?

IIUC this is the case for the encrypted VMs.

what do you mean encrypted VM ?

And how this small patch causes a VM to be 100% encryption supported ?

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Do you suggest we do these workarounds in all device drivers in the kernel ?

Isn't it the driver's job to validate some unreasonable configuration?

The check should be in different layer.

Virtio blk driver should not cover on some strange VDUSE stuff.

Yes I'm not convinced VDUSE is a valid use-case. I think that for
security and robustness it should validate data it gets from userspace
right there after reading it.
But I think this is useful for the virtio hardening thing.
https://lwn.net/Articles/865216/

Yongji - I think the commit log should be much more explicit that
this is hardening. Otherwise people get confused and think this
needs a CVE or a backport for security.

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MST