From: Bijan Mottahedeh <bijan.mottahedeh@oracle.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
gedwards@ddn.com, joe@perches.com, lenaic@lhuard.fr,
liang.z.li@intel.com, mhocko@kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com,
stefanha@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PULL] vhost: cleanups and fixes
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:01:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5eb0188-61fa-7556-4c36-68a618ba39bf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181130084227-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
On 11/30/2018 5:44 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 04:06:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 4:00 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> + memset(&rsp, 0, sizeof(rsp));
>>> + rsp.response = VIRTIO_SCSI_S_FUNCTION_REJECTED;
>>> + resp = vq->iov[out].iov_base;
>>> + ret = __copy_to_user(resp, &rsp, sizeof(rsp));
>>>
>>> Is it actually safe to trust that iov_base has passed an earlier
>>> access_ok() check here? Why not just use copy_to_user() instead?
>> Good point.
>>
>> We really should have removed those double-underscore things ages ago.
>>
>> Also, apart from the address, what about the size? Wouldn't it be
>> better to use copy_to_iter() rather than implement it badly by hand?
>>
>> Linus
> Bijan can you respond please?
> Are you going to look into this and convert code to copy_to_iter?
> I don't think we should release Linux like this, so if you don't
> have the time I'd rather revert for now and you can look
> into reposting for the next release.
>
> Thanks,
>
Sure, will do. Can I send an individual patch for the fix to
vhost_scsi_send_tmf_reject()?
Thanks.
--bijan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-30 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-01 21:19 [PULL] vhost: cleanups and fixes Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-01 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-01 23:00 ` Kees Cook
2018-11-01 23:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-01 23:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-02 11:46 ` Mark Rutland
2018-11-02 13:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-02 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-02 16:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-02 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-02 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-02 19:01 ` Al Viro
2018-11-02 17:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-02 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-02 18:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-30 13:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-30 19:01 ` Bijan Mottahedeh [this message]
2018-11-30 19:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-01 23:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] <20200210010252-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
2020-02-11 2:07 ` Linus Torvalds
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2019-10-15 21:19 Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-10-15 22:25 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-05-14 21:11 Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-05-14 21:20 ` pr-tracker-bot
2018-06-11 16:23 Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-11 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-11 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-12 1:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-12 1:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-12 11:05 ` Wei Wang
2018-06-14 15:01 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2018-06-15 3:53 ` Wei Wang
2018-06-12 1:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-08 15:47 Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-04 13:25 Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-25 18:47 Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-04-10 21:36 Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-02 5:49 Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-02-03 21:43 Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-01-23 15:05 Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-01-23 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-24 2:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-24 11:57 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-21 7:58 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-07 17:07 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-18 10:42 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-09 9:15 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-28 10:00 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 10:50 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 11:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01 19:18 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01 19:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-01-08 7:51 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-01-01 12:26 Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-12-18 10:46 Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-13 21:22 Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-25 11:05 Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-15 18:31 Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-22 8:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-08 11:45 Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-02 10:53 Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-02 18:55 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-05-02 19:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-02 19:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-05 15:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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