On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 8:36 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
wrote:>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 03:36:51PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 3:42 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at
redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 01:53:44PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > Hi All:
> > > >
> > > > This series treis to do more hardening for virito.
> > > >
> > > > patch 1 validates the num_queues for virio-blk device.
> > > > patch 2-4 validates max_nr_ports for virito-console device.
> > > > patch 5-7 harden virtio-pci interrupts to make sure no
exepcted
> > > > interrupt handler is tiggered. If this makes sense we can do
similar
> > > > things in other transport drivers.
> > > > patch 8-9 validate used ring length.
> > > >
> > > > Smoking test on blk/net with packed=on/off and
iommu_platform=on/off.
> > > >
> > > > Please review.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > >
> > > So I poked at console at least, and I think I see
> > > an issue: if interrupt handler queues a work/bh,
> > > then it can still run while reset is in progress.
> >
> > Looks like a bug which is unrelated to the hardening?
>
> Won't preventing use after free be relevant?
Oh right.
> I frankly don't know what does hardening means then.
> > E.g the driver
> > should sync with work/bh before reset.
>
> No, there's no way to fix it ATM without extra locks and state which I
> think we should strive to avoid or make it generic, not per-driver,
> since sync before reset is useless, new interrupts will just arrive and
> queue more work. And a sync after reset is too late since driver will
> try to add buffers.
Can we do something like
1) disable interrupt
2) sync bh
Or I guess this is somehow you meant in the following steps.
>
> Maybe we can break device. Two issues with that
> - drivers might not be ready to handle add_buf failures
> - restore needs to unbreak then and we don't have a way to do that yet
>
> So .. careful reading of all device drivers and hoping we don't mess
> things up even more ... here we come.
Yes.
>
> > >
> > > I sent a patch to fix it for console removal specifically,
> > > but I suspect it's not enough e.g. freeze is still broken.
> > > And note this has been reported without any TDX things -
> > > it's not a malicious device issue, can be triggered just
> > > by module unload.
> > >
> > > I am vaguely thinking about new APIs to disable/enable callbacks.
> > > An alternative:
> > >
> > > 1. adding new remove_nocb/freeze_nocb calls
> > > 2. disabling/enabling interrupts automatically around these
> > > 3. gradually moving devices to using these
> > > 4. once/if all device move, removing the old callbacks
> > >
> > > the advantage here is that we'll be sure calls are always
> > > paired correctly.
> >
> > I'm not sure I get the idea, but my feeling is that it doesn't
> > conflict with the interrupt hardening here (or at least the same
> > method is required e.g NO_AUTO_EN).
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Right. It's not that it conflicts, it's that I was hoping that
> since you are working on hardening you can take up fixing that.
> Let me know whether you have the time. Thanks!
I can do that.
Thanks
>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Jason Wang (9):
> > > > virtio-blk: validate num_queues during probe
> > > > virtio: add doc for validate() method
> > > > virtio-console: switch to use .validate()
> > > > virtio_console: validate max_nr_ports before trying to use
it
> > > > virtio_config: introduce a new ready method
> > > > virtio_pci: harden MSI-X interrupts
> > > > virtio-pci: harden INTX interrupts
> > > > virtio_ring: fix typos in vring_desc_extra
> > > > virtio_ring: validate used buffer length
> > > >
> > > > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 3 +-
> > > > drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 51
+++++++++++++++++++++---------
> > > > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 43
+++++++++++++++++++++----
> > > > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h | 7 ++--
> > > > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c | 5 +--
> > > > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 6 ++--
> > > > drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 27 ++++++++++++++--
> > > > include/linux/virtio.h | 1 +
> > > > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 6 ++++
> > > > 9 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 2.25.1
> > >
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