Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus hardening

[Wei Liu]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 08:12:18PM -0400, Andres Beltran wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Thanks.
> Andres Beltran
> 
> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Andres Beltran (3):
>   Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus
>     hardening
>   scsi: storvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for
>     VMBus hardening
>   hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus
>     hardening

Series applied to hyperv-next. Thanks.