[PATCH] virtio: disable notification hardening by default

From: Jason Wang
Date: Fri Jun 17 2022 - 03:26:40 EST


We try to harden virtio device notifications in 8b4ec69d7e09 ("virtio:
harden vring IRQ"). It works with the assumption that the driver or
core can properly call virtio_device_ready() at the right
place. Unfortunately, this seems to be not true and uncover various
bugs of the existing drivers, mainly the issue of using
virtio_device_ready() incorrectly.

So let's having a Kconfig option and disable it by default. It gives
us a breath to fix the drivers and then we can consider to enable it
by default.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 2 ++
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 12 ++++++++++++
include/linux/virtio_config.h | 2 ++
4 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
index b5adf6abd241..b059c39af3d4 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ menuconfig VIRTIO_MENU

if VIRTIO_MENU

+config VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION
+ bool "Harden virtio notification"
+ help
+ Enable to this to harden the device notifications and
+ supress the ones that are illegal.
+
config VIRTIO_PCI
tristate "PCI driver for virtio devices"
depends on PCI
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
index ef04a96942bf..21dc08d2f32d 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static int virtio_features_ok(struct virtio_device *dev)
* */
void virtio_reset_device(struct virtio_device *dev)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION
/*
* The below virtio_synchronize_cbs() guarantees that any
* interrupt for this line arriving after
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ void virtio_reset_device(struct virtio_device *dev)
*/
virtio_break_device(dev);
virtio_synchronize_cbs(dev);
+#endif

dev->config->reset(dev);
}
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 13a7348cedff..d9d3b6e201fb 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -1688,7 +1688,11 @@ static struct virtqueue *vring_create_virtqueue_packed(
vq->we_own_ring = true;
vq->notify = notify;
vq->weak_barriers = weak_barriers;
+#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION
vq->broken = true;
+#else
+ vq->broken = false;
+#endif
vq->last_used_idx = 0;
vq->event_triggered = false;
vq->num_added = 0;
@@ -2135,9 +2139,13 @@ irqreturn_t vring_interrupt(int irq, void *_vq)
}

if (unlikely(vq->broken)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION
dev_warn_once(&vq->vq.vdev->dev,
"virtio vring IRQ raised before DRIVER_OK");
return IRQ_NONE;
+#else
+ return IRQ_HANDLED;
+#endif
}

/* Just a hint for performance: so it's ok that this can be racy! */
@@ -2180,7 +2188,11 @@ struct virtqueue *__vring_new_virtqueue(unsigned int index,
vq->we_own_ring = false;
vq->notify = notify;
vq->weak_barriers = weak_barriers;
+#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION
vq->broken = true;
+#else
+ vq->broken = false;
+#endif
vq->last_used_idx = 0;
vq->event_triggered = false;
vq->num_added = 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
index 9a36051ceb76..d15c3cdda2d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ void virtio_device_ready(struct virtio_device *dev)

WARN_ON(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK);

+#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION
/*
* The virtio_synchronize_cbs() makes sure vring_interrupt()
* will see the driver specific setup if it sees vq->broken
@@ -264,6 +265,7 @@ void virtio_device_ready(struct virtio_device *dev)
*/
virtio_synchronize_cbs(dev);
__virtio_unbreak_device(dev);
+#endif
/*
* The transport should ensure the visibility of vq->broken
* before setting DRIVER_OK. See the comments for the transport
--
2.25.1