Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus hardening

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Nov 04 2020 - 16:45:09 EST


On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 13:43:48 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 16:40:27 +0100 Andrea Parri (Microsoft) wrote:
> > From: Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Currently, pointers to guest memory are passed to Hyper-V as
> > transaction IDs in netvsc. In the face of errors or malicious
> > behavior in Hyper-V, netvsc should not expose or trust the transaction
> > IDs returned by Hyper-V to be valid guest memory addresses. Instead,
> > use small integers generated by vmbus_requestor as requests
> > (transaction) IDs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Co-developed-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'm assuming this is targeting net-next? If so could you please tag it
> as [PATCH net-next vN]?

Ah, you don't 'cause you only sent us the third patch. In that case with
the nit below addressed:

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>

> > @@ -695,10 +695,19 @@ static void netvsc_send_tx_complete(struct net_device *ndev,
> > const struct vmpacket_descriptor *desc,
> > int budget)
> > {
> > - struct sk_buff *skb = (struct sk_buff *)(unsigned long)desc->trans_id;
> > + struct sk_buff *skb;
> > struct net_device_context *ndev_ctx = netdev_priv(ndev);
>
> Swap these two lines please to keep the variables declaration lines
> longest to shortest.