[PATCH net 0/4] Prevent vhost kthread from hogging CPU

Stefan Hajnoczi
Thu, 16 May 2019 09:34:50 -0000

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 03:47:38AM -0400, Jason Wang
wrote:
> Hi:
>
> This series try to prvernt a guest triggerable CPU hogging through
> vhost kthread. This is done by introducing and checking the weight
> after each requrest. The patch has been tested with reproducer of
> vsock and virtio-net. Only compile test is done for vhost-scsi.
>
> Please review.
>
> This addresses CVE-2019-3900.
>
> Jason Wang (4):
>   vhost: introduce vhost_exceeds_weight()
>   vhost_net: fix possible infinite loop
>   vhost: vsock: add weight support
>   vhost: scsi: add weight support
>
>  drivers/vhost/net.c   | 41 ++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  drivers/vhost/scsi.c  | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.h |  5 ++++-
>  drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>

Looks good aside from the use-after-free in the vsock patch.
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