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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: remove printing of token address
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 03:49:38 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1845029054.11118038.1507535378802.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1507530614-10504-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc>



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
> To: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>, rkrcmar@redhat.com
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
> Sent: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:30:14 AM
> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: remove printing of token address
> 
> KVM currently prints the address of the consumer token. It is not
> immediately clear what benefit it is to see this address. Printing
> this address leaks kernel pointers into dmesg and is a security risk.
> 
> Remove the consumer token address from error message output.

It should use %pK instead.  Also, please do the same change on the VFIO
side (drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c, call to irq_bypass_register_producer).

Thanks,

Paolo

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> index f2ac53ab8243..b54503ed60bd 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> @@ -416,8 +416,7 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irqfd *args)
>  		irqfd->consumer.start = kvm_arch_irq_bypass_start;
>  		ret = irq_bypass_register_consumer(&irqfd->consumer);
>  		if (ret)
> -			pr_info("irq bypass consumer (token %p) registration fails: %d\n",
> -				irqfd->consumer.token, ret);
> +			pr_info("irq bypass consumer registration fails: %d\n", ret);
>  	}
>  #endif
>  
> --
> 2.7.4
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-09  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-09  6:30 [PATCH] KVM: remove printing of token address Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-09  7:49 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-10-09 10:04   ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-09 10:58     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-09 23:51       ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-10  8:31         ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-10 21:49           ` Tobin C. Harding

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