Re: [PATCH net] vhost: validate log when IOTLB is enabled

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Mar 29 2018 - 10:44:39 EST


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 04:00:04PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Vq log_base is the userspace address of bitmap which has nothing to do
> with IOTLB. So it needs to be validated unconditionally otherwise we
> may try use 0 as log_base which may lead to pin pages that will lead
> unexpected result (e.g trigger BUG_ON() in set_bit_to_user()).
>
> Fixes: 6b1e6cc7855b0 ("vhost: new device IOTLB API")
> Reported-by: syzbot+6304bf97ef436580fede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

One follow-up question:

We still observe that get user pages returns 0 sometimes. While I agree
we should not pass in unvalidated addresses, isn't this worth
documenting?


> ---
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 14 ++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 5d5a9d9..5320039 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -1244,14 +1244,12 @@ static int vq_log_access_ok(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> /* Caller should have vq mutex and device mutex */
> int vhost_vq_access_ok(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
> {
> - if (vq->iotlb) {
> - /* When device IOTLB was used, the access validation
> - * will be validated during prefetching.
> - */
> - return 1;
> - }
> - return vq_access_ok(vq, vq->num, vq->desc, vq->avail, vq->used) &&
> - vq_log_access_ok(vq, vq->log_base);
> + int ret = vq_log_access_ok(vq, vq->log_base);
> +
> + if (ret || vq->iotlb)
> + return ret;
> +
> + return vq_access_ok(vq, vq->num, vq->desc, vq->avail, vq->used);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_vq_access_ok);
>
> --
> 2.7.4