Re: [PATCH] e1000: fix tx re-entrancy problem

[Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>]

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This was the one I received.

///jon


On 12/16/21 14:01, Alexander Bulekov wrote:
> On 211216 1935, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 12/16/21 16:51, Jon Maloy wrote:
>>> On 12/16/21 04:36, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>>
>>>> On 10/21/21 18:10, Jon Maloy wrote:
>>>>> The fact that the MMIO handler is not re-entrant causes an infinite
>>>>> loop under certain conditions:
>>>>>
>>>>> Guest write to TDT ->  Loopback -> RX (DMA to TDT) -> TX
>>>>>
>>>>> We now eliminate the effect of this problem locally in e1000, by adding
>>>>> a boolean in struct E1000State indicating when the TX side is busy. This
>>>>> will cause any entering new call to return early instead of interfering
>>>>> with the ongoing work, and eliminates any risk of looping.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is intended to address CVE-2021-20257.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    hw/net/e1000.c | 7 +++++++
>>>>>    1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>> I can not find the reproducer in the repository, have you sent one?
>>>>
>>> No, I did not add it to the repo.
>>> It was referenced from the tracker BZ, but I was unable to get access
>>> back then.
>>> It ended up with that I had it sent by mail to me directly.
>>>
>>> What is your question? Is it that it should be in the repo, or that you
>>> cannot find it?
>> Well I'd like to reproduce the bug, but first I can not find it ;)
>> Having such reproducer committed along with the fix help catching
>> future regressions if we refactor code elsewhere.
>>
> Blind guess, but assuming write to TDT == set_tctl, maybe this one?
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1917082
>

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#!/bin/sh

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outl 0xcfc 0xfffffffe
outl 0xcf8 0x80000803
outw 0xcfc 0x66e2
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write 0x1062 0x3 0x00fe00
writel 0xfe0003ff 0x8e8e8e8e
write 0xfe00380a 0x3 0x525e03
write 0xfe003818 0x1 0xff
EOF

./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -machine accel=qtest \
	-m 512M -M q35 -nodefaults -device e1000,netdev=net0 \
	-netdev user,id=net0 -qtest-log none -qtest stdio < inp