Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] scsi: storvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus hardening

From: Wei Liu
Date: Fri Nov 13 2020 - 07:03:45 EST


On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:04:01AM +0100, Andrea Parri (Microsoft) wrote:
> From: Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently, pointers to guest memory are passed to Hyper-V as
> transaction IDs in storvsc. In the face of errors or malicious
> behavior in Hyper-V, storvsc should not expose or trust the transaction
> IDs returned by Hyper-V to be valid guest memory addresses. Instead,
> use small integers generated by vmbus_requestor as requests
> (transaction) IDs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andres Beltran <lkmlabelt@xxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>