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Date:   Tue, 18 May 2021 05:52:10 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To:     Yongji Xie <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
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Subject: Re: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] Add validation for used length
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On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 04:29:44PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 7:40 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 05:08:19PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > > Current virtio device drivers may trust the used length returned
> > > in virtqueue_get_buf()/virtqueue_get_buf_ctx(). But the used length
> > > might come from an untrusted device when VDUSE[1] is enabled. To
> > > protect this case, this series tries to add validation for the
> > > used length.
> > >
> > > Since many legacy devices will also set the used length incorrectly,
> > > we did not add the validation unconditionally. Instead, we will do
> > > the validation only when the device driver needs the used length.
> > > A NULL len passed to virtqueue_get_buf()/virtqueue_get_buf_ctx()
> > > will mean the used length is not needed by the device driver.
> >
> > Can we be more specific? Which drivers have problems when used len
> > is incorrect? Maybe there's an easier way like validating the length
> > in the driver ...
> >
> 
> It's ok to me. But this means all future new drivers need to remember
> to do the validation.
> 
> Now only virtio-net and virtio-console drivers have this problem. I
> can send some patches to fix it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yongji

I'd say let's just document the requirement for now.

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