[PATCH V2 0/4] Prevent vhost kthread from hogging CPU

From: Jason Wang
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 00:32:09 EST


Hi:

This series try to prevent a guest triggerable CPU hogging through
vhost kthread. This is done by introducing and checking the weight
after each requrest. The patch has been tested with reproducer of
vsock and virtio-net. Only compile test is done for vhost-scsi.

Please review.

This addresses CVE-2019-3900.

Changs from V1:
- fix user-ater-free in vosck patch

Jason Wang (4):
vhost: introduce vhost_exceeds_weight()
vhost_net: fix possible infinite loop
vhost: vsock: add weight support
vhost: scsi: add weight support

drivers/vhost/net.c | 41 ++++++++++++++---------------------------
drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 5 ++++-
drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

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