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

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Hi:

This series try to prvernt 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.

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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1.8.3.1




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