[PATCH v3 0/3] vhost: Skip access checks on GIOVAs

[Greg Kurz]

This series addresses some misuse around vring addresses provided by
userspace when using an IOTLB device. The misuse cause failures of
the VHOST_SET_VRING_ADDR ioctl on POWER, which in turn causes QEMU
to crash at migration time.

Jason suggested that we should use vhost_get_used_size() during the
review of v2. Fixed this in a preliminary patch (patch 2) and rebased
the vq_log_used_access_ok() helper on top (patch 3).

Note that I've also posted a patch for QEMU so that it skips the used
structure GIOVA when allocating the log bitmap. Otherwise QEMU fails to
allocate it because POWER puts GIOVAs very high in the address space (ie.
over 0x800000000000000ULL).

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/patch/160105498386.68108.2145229309875282336.stgit@xxxxxxxxx/

v3:
 - patch 1: added Jason's ack
 - patch 2: new patch to use vhost_get_used_size()
 - patch 3: rebased patch 2 from v2

v2:
 - patch 1: move the (vq->ioltb) check from vhost_vq_access_ok() to
            vq_access_ok() as suggested by MST
 - patch 2: new patch

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Greg Kurz (3):
      vhost: Don't call access_ok() when using IOTLB
      vhost: Use vhost_get_used_size() in vhost_vring_set_addr()
      vhost: Don't call log_access_ok() when using IOTLB


 drivers/vhost/vhost.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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Greg