Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Untrusted device support for virtio

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:21:10AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> Sometimes, the driver doesn't trust the device. This is usually
> happens for the encrtpyed VM or VDUSE[1]. In both cases, technology
> like swiotlb is used to prevent the poking/mangling of memory from the
> device. But this is not sufficient since current virtio driver may
> trust what is stored in the descriptor table (coherent mapping) for
> performing the DMA operations like unmap and bounce so the device may
> choose to utilize the behaviour of swiotlb to perform attacks[2].

We fixed it in the SWIOTLB. That is it saves the expected length
of the DMA operation. See

commit daf9514fd5eb098d7d6f3a1247cb8cc48fc94155 
Author: Martin Radev <martin.b.radev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jan 12 16:07:29 2021 +0100

    swiotlb: Validate bounce size in the sync/unmap path
    
    The size of the buffer being bounced is not checked if it happens
    to be larger than the size of the mapped buffer. Because the size
    can be controlled by a device, as it's the case with virtio devices,
    this can lead to memory corruption.
    

> 
> For double insurance, to protect from a malicous device, when DMA API
> is used for the device, this series store and use the descriptor
> metadata in an auxiliay structure which can not be accessed via
> swiotlb instead of the ones in the descriptor table. Actually, we've

Sorry for being dense here, but how wold SWIOTLB be utilized for
this attack?

> almost achieved that through packed virtqueue and we just need to fix
> a corner case of handling mapping errors. For split virtqueue we just
> follow what's done in the packed.
> 
> Note that we don't duplicate descriptor medata for indirect
> descriptors since it uses stream mapping which is read only so it's
> safe if the metadata of non-indirect descriptors are correct.
> 
> The behaivor for non DMA API is kept for minimizing the performance
> impact.
> 
> Slightly tested with packed on/off, iommu on/of, swiotlb force/off in
> the guest.
> 
> Please review.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/fab615ce-5e13-a3b3-3715-a4203b4ab010@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
> [2] https://yhbt.net/lore/all/c3629a27-3590-1d9f-211b-c0b7be152b32@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#mc6b6e2343cbeffca68ca7a97e0f473aaa871c95b
> 
> Jason Wang (7):
>   virtio-ring: maintain next in extra state for packed virtqueue
>   virtio_ring: rename vring_desc_extra_packed
>   virtio-ring: factor out desc_extra allocation
>   virtio_ring: secure handling of mapping errors
>   virtio_ring: introduce virtqueue_desc_add_split()
>   virtio: use err label in __vring_new_virtqueue()
>   virtio-ring: store DMA metadata in desc_extra for split virtqueue
> 
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 141 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> 
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