Re: [PATCH] vsock/virtio: suppress used length validation

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 04:32:01AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> It turns out that vhost vsock violates the virtio spec
> by supplying the out buffer length in the used length
> (should just be the in length).
> As a result, attempts to validate the used length fail with:
> vmw_vsock_virtio_transport virtio1: tx: used len 44 is larger than in buflen 0
> 
> Since vsock driver does not use the length fox tx and
> validates the length before use for rx, it is safe to
> suppress the validation in virtio core for this driver.
> 
> Reported-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 939779f5152d ("virtio_ring: validate used buffer length")
> Cc: "Jason Wang" <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>

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