Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] Prevent vhost kthread from hogging CPU

From: David Miller
Date: Sat May 18 2019 - 16:29:34 EST


From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 00:29:48 -0400

> Hi:
>
> This series try to prevent 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.
>
> Changs from V1:
> - fix user-ater-free in vosck patch

I am assuming that not only will mst review this, it will also go via
his tree rather than mine.

Thanks.