From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH untested] vhost: block speculation of translated descriptors
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 15:19:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db4d77d7-c467-935d-b4ae-1da7635e9b6b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190908110521.4031-1-mst@redhat.com>
On 2019/9/8 下午7:05, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> iovec addresses coming from vhost are assumed to be
> pre-validated, but in fact can be speculated to a value
> out of range.
>
> Userspace address are later validated with array_index_nospec so we can
> be sure kernel info does not leak through these addresses, but vhost
> must also not leak userspace info outside the allowed memory table to
> guests.
>
> Following the defence in depth principle, make sure
> the address is not validated out of node range.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 5dc174ac8cac..0ee375fb7145 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -2072,7 +2072,9 @@ static int translate_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, u64 addr, u32 len,
> size = node->size - addr + node->start;
> _iov->iov_len = min((u64)len - s, size);
> _iov->iov_base = (void __user *)(unsigned long)
> - (node->userspace_addr + addr - node->start);
> + (node->userspace_addr +
> + array_index_nospec(addr - node->start,
> + node->size));
> s += size;
> addr += size;
> ++ret;
I've tried this on Kaby Lake smap off metadata acceleration off using
testpmd (virtio-user) + vhost_net. I don't see obvious performance
difference with TX PPS.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-09 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-08 11:05 [RFC PATCH untested] vhost: block speculation of translated descriptors Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-09-09 7:19 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2019-09-09 14:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-09-10 1:52 ` Jason Wang
2019-09-10 6:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-09-10 7:28 ` Jason Wang
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