From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Sjur Brændeland" <sjurbren@gmail.com>,
"Amit Shah" <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ohad Ben-Cohen" <ohad@wizery.com>,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] virtio: don't crash when device is buggy
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:24:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120918222405.GB20285@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehm1s28q.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:57:17PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Because of a sanity check in virtio_dev_remove, a buggy device can crash
> > kernel. And in case of rproc it's userspace so it's not a good idea.
> > We are unloading a driver so how bad can it be?
> > Be less aggressive in handling this error: if it's a driver bug,
> > warning once should be enough.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> >
> > --
> >
> > 3.6 material?
>
> I have already applied, this, but it's not for stable, since it's a
> "theoretical bugfix". That check has been in there forever and noone
> AFAIK has actually struck it.
>
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
Yes but can't malicious userspace trigger this with remoteproc? If yes
it's not a question of whether anyone has struck it since people don't
normally run malicious userspace :)
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-18 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-03 13:51 [RFC 1/2] virtio_console: Add support for DMA memory allocation sjur.brandeland
2012-09-03 13:51 ` [RFC 2/2] virtio_console: Add feature to disable console port sjur.brandeland
2012-09-03 14:30 ` [RFC 1/2] virtio_console: Add support for DMA memory allocation Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-03 14:57 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-03 20:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 6:07 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-05 13:00 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-05 14:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-05 18:15 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-05 19:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 9:24 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-04 11:28 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-04 13:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 16:58 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-04 18:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 2:04 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-06 5:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 22:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-12 6:24 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-07 8:35 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-16 9:44 ` [PATCH repost] virtio: don't crash when device is buggy Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-17 4:27 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-18 22:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-09-19 4:10 ` Rusty Russell
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