From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost/vsock: accept only packets with the right dst_cid
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:32:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191210143251.szkicty23b6pojxh@steredhat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191210090505-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:05:58AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 03:39:12PM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > When we receive a new packet from the guest, we check if the
> > src_cid is correct, but we forgot to check the dst_cid.
> >
> > The host should accept only packets where dst_cid is
> > equal to the host CID.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
>
> what's the implication of processing incorrect dst cid?
> I think mostly it's malformed guests, right?
Exaclty, as for the src_cid.
In both cases the packet may be delivered to the wrong socket in the
host, because in the virtio_transport_recv_pkt() we are using the
src_cid and dst_cid to look for the socket where to queue the packet.
> Everyone else just passes the known host cid ...
Yes, good guests should do it, and we do it :-)
Thanks,
Stefano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-10 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-06 14:39 [PATCH] vhost/vsock: accept only packets with the right dst_cid Stefano Garzarella
2019-12-07 20:00 ` David Miller
2019-12-10 14:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-12-10 14:32 ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]
2019-12-11 16:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-12-12 12:36 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-12-12 12:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-12-12 13:14 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-12-12 17:18 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-12-12 19:01 ` David Miller
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