Virtualization - Jan 2023 - [PATCH v1 2/6] virtio console: Harden port adding

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:13:18PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin
wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
> > Then you need to copy it out once, and then only deal with the local
> > copy.  Otherwise you have an incomplete snapshot.
> 
> Ok, would you be partial to something like this:
> 
> >From 1bc9bb84004154376c2a0cf643d53257da6d1cd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:59:02 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] virtio console: Keep a local copy of the control structure
> 
> When handling control messages, instead of peeking at the device memory
> to obtain bits of the control structure, take a snapshot of it once and
> use it instead, to prevent it from changing under us. This avoids races
> between port id validation and control event decoding, which can lead
> to, for example, a NULL dereference in port removal of a nonexistent
> port.
> 
> The control structure is small enough (8 bytes) that it can be cached
> directly on the stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at
linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Amit Shah <amit at kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
Yes, this looks much better, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>