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* drivers/vhost: sizing of ubuf_info and heads
@ 2013-03-08  2:57 Rusty Russell
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From: Rusty Russell @ 2013-03-08  2:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mst; +Cc: netdev, virtualization

Hi Michael,

        I'm a bit confused about why ubuf_info and heads are UIO_MAXIOV
length arrays, rather than being the size of the ring?  In particular,
this is suspicious:

linux/drivers/vhost/net.c:342:	struct ubuf_info *ubuf = &vq->ubuf_info[head];

And it seems to assume we trust head: a malicious guest could put the
same head entry in the ring twice, and we will get two callbacks on the
same value.  I don't know what that will do, but I'm not sure it's
harmless.

Thanks,
Rusty.

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