Re: [PATCH 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: vmbus_requestor data structure

[Wei Liu]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:48:17PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:42:27PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 11:37:20AM -0400, Andres Beltran wrote:
> > > From: Andres Beltran (Microsoft) <lkmlabelt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Currently, VMbus drivers use pointers into guest memory as request IDs
> > > for interactions with Hyper-V. To be more robust in the face of errors
> > > or malicious behavior from a compromised Hyper-V, avoid exposing
> > > guest memory addresses to Hyper-V. Also avoid Hyper-V giving back a
> > > bad request ID that is then treated as the address of a guest data
> > > structure with no validation. Instead, encapsulate these memory
> > > addresses and provide small integers as request IDs.
> > > 
> > > The first patch creates the definitions for the data structure, provides
> > > helper methods to generate new IDs and retrieve data, and
> > > allocates/frees the memory needed for vmbus_requestor.
> > > 
> > > The second and third patches make use of vmbus_requestor to send request
> > > IDs to Hyper-V in storvsc and netvsc respectively.
> > > 
> > 
> > Per my understanding, this new data structure is per-channel, so it
> > won't introduce contention on the lock in multi-queue scenario. Have you
> > done any testing to confirm there is no severe performance regression?
> 
> I did run some performance tests using our dev pipeline (storage and
> network workloads).  I did not find regressions w.r.t. baseline.

Thanks, that's good to hear.

Wei.

> 
>   Andrea