From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:57:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110926195716.GB23086@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJsxLHQZCvRQMcs08GZgDgR9AwtePdr=t7kos6XfMF_dgxZGw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:45:35PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Interesting. This is a theoretical issue, correct?
> >> Not a crash you actually see.
> >
> > Actually it was an actual crash caused when our virtio-net driver in kvm
> > tools did funny things and passed '(u32)-1' length as a buffer length to
> > the guest kernel.
>
> I'm not sure what Michael means with "theoretical issue" here. Can the guest
> driver assume that the hypervisor doesn't attempt to do nasty things?
>
> Pekka
IMO yes, hypervisor has full access to guest memory so it's a safe
assumption. But surviving in the face of hypervisor bugs
is laudable goal, bugs do happen.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 17:41 [PATCH 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb Sasha Levin
2011-09-26 17:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] virtio-net: Prevent NULL dereference Sasha Levin
2011-09-26 18:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-26 18:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-26 19:37 ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-26 19:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-26 19:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2011-09-26 20:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-26 19:57 ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-26 19:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-27 6:44 ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-27 7:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-27 11:20 ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-27 12:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-28 12:19 ` Sasha Levin
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