Re: [PATCH V2] vhost-scsi: unbreak any layout for response

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:36:47PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:

Al Viro said:

"""
Since "vhost/scsi: fix reuse of &vq->iov[out] in response"
we have this:
                cmd->tvc_resp_iov = vq->iov[vc.out];
                cmd->tvc_in_iovs = vc.in;
combined with
                iov_iter_init(&iov_iter, ITER_DEST, &cmd->tvc_resp_iov,
                              cmd->tvc_in_iovs, sizeof(v_rsp));
in vhost_scsi_complete_cmd_work().  We used to have ->tvc_resp_iov
_pointing_ to vq->iov[vc.out]; back then iov_iter_init() asked to
set an iovec-backed iov_iter over the tail of vq->iov[], with
length being the amount of iovecs in the tail.

Now we have a copy of one element of that array.  Fortunately, the members
following it in the containing structure are two non-NULL kernel pointers,
so copy_to_iter() will not copy anything beyond the first iovec - kernel
pointer is not (on the majority of architectures) going to be accepted by
access_ok() in copyout() and it won't be skipped since the "length" (in
reality - another non-NULL kernel pointer) won't be zero.

So it's not going to give a guest-to-qemu escalation, but it's definitely
a bug.  Frankly, my preference would be to verify that the very first iovec
is long enough to hold rsp_size.  Due to the above, any users that try to
give us vq->iov[vc.out].iov_len < sizeof(struct virtio_scsi_cmd_resp)
would currently get a failure in vhost_scsi_complete_cmd_work()
anyway.
"""

However, the spec doesn't say anything about the legacy descriptor
layout for the respone. So this patch tries to not assume the response
to reside in a single separate descriptor which is what commit
79c14141a487 ("vhost/scsi: Convert completion path to use") tries to
achieve towards to ANY_LAYOUT.

This is done by allocating and using dedicate resp iov in the
command. To be safety, start with UIO_MAXIOV to be consistent with the
limitation that we advertise to the vhost_get_vq_desc().

Testing with the hacked virtio-scsi driver that use 1 descriptor for 1
byte in the response.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Coddington <redacted>
Cc: Nicholas Bellinger <redacted>
Fixes: a77ec83a5789 ("vhost/scsi: fix reuse of &vq->iov[out] in response")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
---
Changes since V1:
- tweak the changelog
- fix the allocation size for tvc_resp_iov (should be sizeof(struct iovec))
---
 drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>