From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Yongji Xie <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:51:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211013084711-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACycT3skLJp1HfovKP8AvQmdxhyJNG6YFrb6kXjd48qaztHBNQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 08:34:22PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 8:21 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:42:43AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Stefan also pointed out this duplicates the logic from
> > > >
> > > > if (blksize < 512 || blksize > PAGE_SIZE || !is_power_of_2(blksize))
> > > > return -EINVAL;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > and a bunch of other places.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Would it be acceptable for blk layer to validate the input
> > > > instead of having each driver do it's own thing?
> > > > Maybe inside blk_queue_logical_block_size?
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure we want down that before. Let's just add a helper
> > > just for that check for now as part of this series. Actually validating
> > > in in blk_queue_logical_block_size seems like a good idea, but returning
> > > errors from that has a long tail.
> >
> > Xie Yongji, I think I will revert this patch for now - can you
> > please work out adding that helper and using it in virtio?
> >
>
> Fine, I will do it.
>
> Thanks,
> Yongji
Great, thanks! And while at it, pls research a bit more and mention
in the commit log what is the result of an illegal blk size?
Is it memory corruption? A catastrophic failure?
If it's one of these cases, then it's ok to just fail probe.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-13 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-09 10:16 [PATCH v5] virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space Xie Yongji
2021-08-10 3:05 ` Jason Wang
2021-08-10 4:59 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-10 6:59 ` Jason Wang
2021-08-22 23:17 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-23 4:31 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-23 8:07 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-23 8:35 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-23 9:04 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-23 9:27 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-23 9:38 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-23 10:33 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-23 10:45 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-23 11:41 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-23 12:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-08-23 12:40 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-23 16:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-08-23 22:31 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-24 2:47 ` Jason Wang
2021-08-24 10:11 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-24 12:52 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-24 13:30 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-08-24 13:38 ` Yongji Xie
2021-08-24 13:48 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-10-04 15:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-10-04 15:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-10-05 15:52 ` Yongji Xie
2021-10-05 10:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-10-05 15:45 ` Yongji Xie
2021-10-05 18:26 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-10-11 11:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-13 12:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-10-13 12:34 ` Yongji Xie
2021-10-13 12:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2021-10-13 12:59 ` Yongji Xie
2021-10-05 15:24 ` Yongji Xie
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