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Date:   Tue, 30 Jun 2020 19:12:13 +0200
From:   Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
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        wei.liu@kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org,
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        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: vmbus_requestor data
 structure for VMBus hardening
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Andres Beltran wrote:
> Currently, VMbus drivers use pointers into guest memory as request IDs
> for interactions with Hyper-V. To be more robust in the face of errors
> or malicious behavior from a compromised Hyper-V, avoid exposing
> guest memory addresses to Hyper-V. Also avoid Hyper-V giving back a
> bad request ID that is then treated as the address of a guest data
> structure with no validation. Instead, encapsulate these memory
> addresses and provide small integers as request IDs.
> 
> The first patch creates the definitions for the data structure, provides
> helper methods to generate new IDs and retrieve data, and
> allocates/frees the memory needed for vmbus_requestor.
> 
> The second and third patches make use of vmbus_requestor to send request
> IDs to Hyper-V in storvsc and netvsc respectively.
> 
> Thanks.
> Andres Beltran
> 
> Tested-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>

Em, I don't expect the changes introduced since v1 to have any observable
effects, but I really don't know: I should be able to complete my testing
of this by tomorrow or so; for now, please just ignore this tag.

Thanks,
  Andrea


> 
> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> 
> Andres Beltran (3):
>   Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus
>     hardening
>   scsi: storvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for
>     VMBus hardening
>   hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus
>     hardening
> 
>  drivers/hv/channel.c              | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h   |  13 +++
>  drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c       |  79 ++++++++++++---
>  drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c |   1 +
>  drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c        |  85 ++++++++++++++---
>  include/linux/hyperv.h            |  22 +++++
>  6 files changed, 329 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>