Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 3 authors, 2021-04-18

Re: [RFC V2 PATCH 8/12] UIO/Hyper-V: Not load UIO HV driver in the isolation VM.

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-04-14 15:36:54
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:20:19PM +0800, Tianyu Lan wrote:
Hi Greg:
	Thanks for your review.

On 4/14/2021 12:00 AM, Greg KH wrote:
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:22:13AM -0400, Tianyu Lan wrote:
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From: Tianyu Lan <redacted>

UIO HV driver should not load in the isolation VM for security reason.
Why?  I need a lot more excuse than that.
The reason is that ring buffers have been marked as visible to host.
UIO driver will expose these buffers to user space and user space
driver hasn't done some secure check for data from host. This
is considered as insecure in isolation VM.
But as this is a VM choice, why did the VM mark those as visible in the
first place?

thanks,

greg k-h
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