Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2020-09-07

RE: [PATCH v7 3/3] hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus hardening

From: Michael Kelley <hidden>
Date: 2020-09-07 22:02:53
Also in: linux-hyperv, lkml

From: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 9:19 AM
From: Andres Beltran <redacted>

Currently, pointers to guest memory are passed to Hyper-V as
transaction IDs in netvsc. In the face of errors or malicious
behavior in Hyper-V, netvsc should not expose or trust the transaction
IDs returned by Hyper-V to be valid guest memory addresses. Instead,
use small integers generated by vmbus_requestor as requests
(transaction) IDs.

Signed-off-by: Andres Beltran <redacted>
Co-developed-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
Changes in v7:
	- Move the allocation of the request ID after the data has been
	  copied into the ring buffer (cf. 1/3).
Changes in v2:
        - Add casts to unsigned long to fix warnings on 32bit.
        - Use an inline function to get the requestor size.

 drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h   | 13 +++++++++++++
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c       | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c |  1 +
 include/linux/hyperv.h            |  1 +
 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <redacted>
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