From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nab@risingtidesystems.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org,
basil.gor@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] vhost/net: fix heads usage of ubuf_info
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:50:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130317185022.GA22517@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130317.142955.1114572401286297685.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 02:29:55PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:46:09 +0200
>
> > ubuf info allocator uses guest controlled head as an index,
> > so a malicious guest could put the same head entry in the ring twice,
> > and we will get two callbacks on the same value.
> > To fix use upend_idx which is guaranteed to be unique.
> >
> > Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
OK I'll drop it from my tree then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-17 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-17 12:46 [PATCH net] vhost/net: fix heads usage of ubuf_info Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-17 18:29 ` David Miller
2013-03-17 18:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2013-03-21 6:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 16:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-21 16:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 16:33 ` Ben Hutchings
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