Re: usercopy whitelist woe in scsi_sense_cache

[Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>]

Hi.

05.04.2018 16:21, Kees Cook wrote:
> I had a VM running over night with:
> 
> [1]   Running                 while :; do
>     smartctl -a /dev/sda > /dev/null;
> done &
> [2]-  Running                 while :; do
>     ls --color=auto -lR / > /dev/null 2> /dev/null;
> done &
> [3]+  Running                 while :; do
>     sleep $(( $RANDOM % 100 )); sync; echo 3 > 
> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches;
> done &
> 
> and I haven't seen the issue. :(
> 
> FWIW, I'm using the ahci qemu driver:
> 
> -drive file=disk-image.raw,if=none,id=drive0,format=raw \
> -device ahci,id=bus0 \
> -device ide-drive,bus=bus0.0,drive=drive0
> 
> Does this match your qemu instance?

Well, not really. I just pass 2 raw disks as "-hda sda.img -hdb sda.img" 
(it is a playground VM for me with RAID10, LVM and LUKS inside, but I 
hope this doesn't matter). Does passing "-hda" differ from your 
approach?

Regards,
   Oleksandr