Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2020-11-17

Re: [PATCH v9 3/3] hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus hardening

From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-11-13 12:03:30
Also in: linux-hyperv, lkml

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:04:02AM +0100, Andrea Parri (Microsoft) wrote:
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>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <redacted>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <redacted>
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