From: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 20:38:39 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354249849.63357171.1547343519970.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190113013839.O95cr5ljHJsZarX9keyUdr4O0d0ATTiqM1AwGb2g5fI@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190110101757.GC15790@quack2.suse.cz>
>
> On Thu 10-01-19 12:26:17, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 08:17:31PM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> > > This patch series has implementation for "virtio pmem".
> > > "virtio pmem" is fake persistent memory(nvdimm) in guest
> > > which allows to bypass the guest page cache. This also
> > > implements a VIRTIO based asynchronous flush mechanism.
> >
> > Hmmmm. Sharing the host page cache direct into the guest VM. Sounds
> > like a good idea, but.....
> >
> > This means the guest VM can now run timing attacks to observe host
> > side page cache residency, and depending on the implementation I'm
> > guessing that the guest will be able to control host side page
> > cache eviction, too (e.g. via discard or hole punch operations).
> >
> > Which means this functionality looks to me like a new vector for
> > information leakage into and out of the guest VM via guest
> > controlled host page cache manipulation.
> >
> > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01161
> >
> > I might be wrong, but if I'm not we're going to have to be very
> > careful about how guest VMs can access and manipulate host side
> > resources like the page cache.....
>
> Right. Thinking about this I would be more concerned about the fact that
> guest can effectively pin amount of host's page cache upto size of the
> device/file passed to guest as PMEM, can't it Pankaj? Or is there some QEMU
> magic that avoids this?
Yes, guest will pin these host page cache pages using 'get_user_pages' by
elevating the page reference count. But these pages can be reclaimed by host
at any time when there is memory pressure.
KVM does not permanently pin pages. vfio does that but we are not using
it here.
Could you please elaborate what you are thinking?
Thanks,
Pankaj
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-13 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-09 14:47 [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-09 14:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-09 14:47 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-14 15:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-14 15:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20190114105314-mutt-send-email-mst-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-15 6:33 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-15 6:33 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-09 14:47 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] libnvdimm: add nd_region buffered dax_dev flag Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-09 14:47 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] ext4: disable map_sync for virtio pmem Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-09 14:47 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] xfs: " Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-09 14:47 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-09 16:26 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-09 18:08 ` Pankaj Gupta
[not found] ` <20190109144736.17452-1-pagupta-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-10 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device Dave Chinner
2019-01-10 1:26 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-10 2:40 ` Rik van Riel
2019-01-10 2:40 ` Rik van Riel
2019-01-10 10:17 ` Jan Kara
2019-01-10 10:17 ` Jan Kara
[not found] ` <20190110101757.GC15790-4I4JzKEfoa/jFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-13 1:38 ` Pankaj Gupta [this message]
2019-01-13 1:38 ` Pankaj Gupta
[not found] ` <1354249849.63357171.1547343519970.JavaMail.zimbra-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-13 1:43 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-13 1:43 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <CAPcyv4hwcgTUpgNCefCGu4DvgkYBp5b=f+hJ+FC=s5APYKoycg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-13 2:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-13 2:17 ` Pankaj Gupta
[not found] ` <540171952.63371441.1547345866585.JavaMail.zimbra-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-14 9:55 ` Jan Kara
2019-01-14 9:55 ` Jan Kara
[not found] ` <20190114095520.GC13316-4I4JzKEfoa/jFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-14 10:16 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-14 10:16 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-11 7:45 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-11 7:45 ` Pankaj Gupta
[not found] ` <1326478078.61913951.1547192704870.JavaMail.zimbra-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-13 23:29 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-13 23:29 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-13 23:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-13 23:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
[not found] ` <20190113233820.GX6310-PfSpb0PWhxZc2C7mugBRk2EX/6BAtgUQ@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-14 2:50 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-14 2:50 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-14 7:15 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-14 7:15 ` Pankaj Gupta
[not found] ` <942065073.64011540.1547450140670.JavaMail.zimbra-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-14 21:25 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-14 21:25 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-14 21:35 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-14 21:35 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <CAPcyv4jtPcLV-s0sKNHwwk0ug7GLBV6699dpm1h3r2xSo879dg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-14 22:21 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-14 22:21 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-15 2:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-15 2:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20190114205031-mutt-send-email-mst-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-15 5:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-15 5:37 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-15 5:35 ` Pankaj Gupta
2019-01-15 5:35 ` Pankaj Gupta
[not found] ` <1684638419.64320214.1547530506805.JavaMail.zimbra-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2019-01-15 20:42 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-15 20:42 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-04 22:56 ` security implications of caching with virtio pmem (was Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device) Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-05 7:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Pankaj Gupta
2019-02-06 14:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-06 18:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 7:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Pankaj Gupta
2019-02-11 22:29 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-11 22:58 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-11 23:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2019-01-09 13:50 [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device Pankaj Gupta
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