Re: [PATCH V5 1/4] virtio_ring: validate used buffer length

Jason Wang
2021-11-24T02:27:31Z

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 9:30 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 10:25:20AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 4:24 AM Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:25:26 +0800
> >> > Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I think the fixes are:
> >> > >
> >> > > 1) fixing the vhost vsock
> >> > > 2) use suppress_used_validation=true to let vsock driver to validate
> >> > > the in buffer length
> >> > > 3) probably a new feature so the driver can only enable the validation
> >> > > when the feature is enabled.
> >> >
> >> > I'm not sure, I would consider a F_DEV_Y_FIXED_BUG_X a perfectly good
> >> > feature. Frankly the set of such bugs is device implementation
> >> > specific and it makes little sense to specify a feature bit
> >> > that says the device implementation claims to adhere to some
> >> > aspect of the specification. Also what would be the semantic
> >> > of not negotiating F_DEV_Y_FIXED_BUG_X?
> >>
> >> Yes, I agree. Rethink of the feature bit, it seems unnecessary,
> >> especially considering the driver should not care about the used
> >> length for tx.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > On the other hand I see no other way to keep the validation
> >> > permanently enabled for fixed implementations, and get around the problem
> >> > with broken implementations. So we could have something like
> >> > VHOST_USED_LEN_STRICT.
> >>
> >> It's more about a choice of the driver's knowledge. For vsock TX it
> >> should be fine. If we introduce a parameter and disable it by default,
> >> it won't be very useful.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Maybe, we can also think of 'warn and don't alter behavior' instead of
> >> > 'warn' and alter behavior. Or maybe even not having such checks on in
> >> > production, but only when testing.
> >>
> >> I think there's an agreement that virtio drivers need more hardening,
> >> that's why a lot of patches were merged. Especially considering the
> >> new requirements came from confidential computing, smart NIC and
> >> VDUSE. For virtio drivers, enabling the validation may help to
> >>
> >> 1) protect the driver from the buggy and malicious device
> >> 2) uncover the bugs of the devices (as vsock did, and probably rpmsg)
> >> 3) force the have a smart driver that can do the validation itself
> >> then we can finally remove the validation in the core
> >>
> >> So I'd like to keep it enabled.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >
> > Let's see how far we can get. But yes, maybe we were too aggressive in
> > breaking things by default, a warning might be a better choice for a
> > couple of cycles.

Ok, considering we saw the issues with balloons I think I can post a
patch to use warn instead. I wonder if we need to taint the kernel in
this case.

>
> This series appears to break the virtio_balloon driver as well.
>
> The symptom is soft lockup warnings, eg:
>
> INFO: task kworker/1:1:109 blocked for more than 614 seconds.
> Not tainted 5.16.0-rc2-gcc-10.3.0 #21
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> task:kworker/1:1 state:D stack:12496 pid: 109 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000800
> Workqueue: events_freezable update_balloon_size_func
> Call Trace:
> [c000000003cef7c0] [c000000003cef820] 0xc000000003cef820 (unreliable)
> [c000000003cef9b0] [c00000000001e238] __switch_to+0x1e8/0x2f0
> [c000000003cefa10] [c000000000f0a00c] __schedule+0x2cc/0xb50
> [c000000003cefae0] [c000000000f0a8fc] schedule+0x6c/0x140
> [c000000003cefb10] [c00000000095b6c4] tell_host+0xe4/0x130
> [c000000003cefba0] [c00000000095d234] update_balloon_size_func+0x394/0x3f0
> [c000000003cefc70] [c000000000178064] process_one_work+0x2c4/0x5b0
> [c000000003cefd10] [c0000000001783f8] worker_thread+0xa8/0x640
> [c000000003cefda0] [c000000000185444] kthread+0x1b4/0x1c0
> [c000000003cefe10] [c00000000000cee4] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
>
> Similar backtrace reported here by Luis:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YY2duTi0wAyAKUTJ@bombadil.infradead.org/
>
> Bisect points to:
>
> # first bad commit: [939779f5152d161b34f612af29e7dc1ac4472fcf] virtio_ring: validate used buffer length
>
> Adding suppress used validation to the virtio balloon driver "fixes" it, eg.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index c22ff0117b46..a14b82ceebb2 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -1150,6 +1150,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = {
> };
>
> static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = {
> + .suppress_used_validation = true,
> .feature_table = features,
> .feature_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(features),
> .driver.name = KBUILD_MODNAME,

Looks good, we need a formal patch for this.

And we need fix Qemu as well which advertise non zero used length for
inflate/deflate queue:

static void virtio_balloon_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
...
virtqueue_push(vq, elem, offset);

Thanks

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>
> cheers
>