Re: [RFC PATCH V2 0/7] Do not read from descripto ring

[Jason Wang]

在 2021/4/23 下午4:09, Jason Wang 写道:
> Hi:
>
> 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].
>
> To protect from a malicous 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. This means
> the descriptor table is write-only from the view of the driver.
>
> Actually, we've 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.
>
> For split virtqueue, the change increase the footprint due the the
> auxiliary metadata but it's almost neglectlable in the simple test
> like pktgen or netpef.
>
> Slightly tested with packed on/off, iommu on/of, swiotlb force/off in
> the guest.
>
> Please review.
>
> Changes from V1:
> - Always use auxiliary metadata for split virtqueue
> - Don't read from descripto when detaching indirect descriptor


Hi Michael:

Our QE see no regression on the perf test for 10G but some regressions 
(5%-10%) on 40G card.

I think this is expected since we increase the footprint, are you OK 
with this and we can try to optimize on top or you have other ideas?

Thanks


> [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 | 201 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>   1 file changed, 144 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)